Deborah Burger, R.N., President of the California Nurses Association

Deborah Burger, R.N., is the President of the California Nurses Association (CNA). Her organization strongly favors embryonic stem cell research, but is actively opposing California's Proposition 71, because of its funding arrangements, its lack of openness, and its implications for, specifically, women's health.

You can hear what she said today about this in an exclusive audio interview with California Politics Today by clicking here.

For a press release from the CNA announcing its support of embryonic stem cell research and their opposition to Proposition 71, click here.

To read the CNA Position Paper on embryonic stem cell research, click here.

To read the Sacramento Bee article referred to in the interview, click here.

To read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighting the financial aspect of CNA's opposition to Proposition 71, click here.