Betty Poirier represents the Fourteenth Bristol district in the Massachusetts State House of Representatives. She is one of a small number of Republicans in that body.
Representative Poirier is the author of a recent guest column in the
Norton Mirror entitled
"Why I opposed stem cell bill," in which she makes the case against the legislation now pending in the Massachusetts Legislature that would encourage embryonic stem cell research in the Commonwealth, principally on the grounds that it would open the way for the massive exploitation of women in order to harvest their oocytes/eggs, which are necessary to conduct embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic procedures derived from that research.
A link to her op-ed piece is included in a recent
California Politics Today article entitled
"Fears of "female human egg farming" grow, while local, national, and global battles over human cloning rage."
Representative Poirier spoke exclusively today with
California Politics Today about the concerns she raised in her op-ed article.
You can listen to Massachusetts State Representative Betty Poirier's comments about the threat to women from an unbridled campaign to harvest their eggs for embryonic stem cell research and possible treatments to be derived from that research by clicking
here.
To access other audio interviews on the subject of egg donations for embryonic stem cell research, from alternative points of view, click on the guest's name:
Dr. David Adamson, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Reproductive Care, Inc. (ARC);
Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies, Ourselves.
To listen to an interview with Jonathan Moreno, co-chair, National Academy of Sciences Embryonic Stem Cell Research Guidelines Committee, in which he discusses those guidelines, click
here.
