New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has proposed legislation that would designate hundreds of millions in state funds for research on human embryos, LifeNews.com reported.
Richard Barnes, director of the New York Catholic Conference, testified before Senate and House committees considering the bill.
"The governor's stem-cell research proposal," he said, "is devoid of any moral consideration whatsoever for the living human embryos who will be subject to experimentation and destruction."
In addition, the state is already in a state of fiscal decline, he added.
"It is simply not the time or the place to be investing billions of dollars in the highly speculative science of embryonic stem-cell research," Barnes said.
