Unexpected Consequences; Rick Perry, Prayer and Stem Cells  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8746 (Aug. 2011), page 25.
Topik: Governors; Surgery; Stem Cells; Christianity; Federal Funding; Medical Research

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On August 6th, some 30,000 of the faithful gathered in a stadium in Houston for a prayer rally on behalf of the country. They were keen to see Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, who seems to be about to announce that he will run for president. The governor duly preached. Perry will enter the Republican race as a powerful prospect, partly because he is on firm footing with the party's social conservatives. They might like him even more if they knew an obscure but intriguing fact about him: he actually practises what he preaches. Last month Mr Perry had an operation to fix a recurring back problem. While the surgeon was at it, he injected the governor with stem cells, in an experimental procedure meant to speed recovery. Pro-life conservatives oppose embryonic stem-cell research on the grounds that it destroys life. They are keen, however, on adult stem cells, which they hope may obviate the use of the embryonic kind. The stem cells used in Perry's procedure were his own. And the governor has been a proponent of adult stem-cell research, for economic reasons as well as ethical ones.

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