State Sen. Chuck Graham called for the Missouri Development Finance Board to go into emergency session to remove a clause that bans embryonic stem cell research inside capitol improvement projects funded with proceeds from the partial asset sale of MOHELA.

Graham said it was wrong for the MDFB to place an “unnecessary and unwise restriction” on the deal.

“Even more troubling is the fact that if the Legislature approves the Omnibus Higher Education Bill (Senate Bill 389) in its current form, the MOHELA/“Lewis & Clark Discovery Initiative” will be bound by any future restrictions approved by the MDFB,” Graham believe professors and other outstanding researchers from across the country will be hesitant to come to a state where an obscure board can place unreasonable restrictions on academic research, and it won’t need legislative approval to do it.

State Rep. Judy Baker, D-Columbia, said yesterday that she will not support the MOHELA plan because of the anti-embryonic stem cell research provision.

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