The Illinois Governor has done what the legislature could not pass: He has issued an executive order creating the Illinois Regenerative Medical Institute that will use state money to fund, among other endeavors, research into human cloning. What the legislature could not do, the governor does with the stroke of a pen. So much for democratic processes.
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