January 8th, 2006 A recent poll of 800 Kansas voters conducted by renowned Republican pollster Fred Steeper found that Kansas voters overwhelmingly support allowing all types of stem cell research and treatments in Kansas and oppose any state-level bans on stem cell research or treatments allowed under federal law. By a margin of more than two-to-one, Kansas voters said they support allowing both adult and early, or embryonic, stem cell research in the state and oppose a proposed law that would impose a state ban on the type of stem cell research called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT).

October 28th, 2005 Missouri Governor Matt Blunt on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for stem cell research during a speech to the Missouri Baptist Convention. “I believe public money should support research to develop adult stem cells,” Blunt told the audience of about 2,000.

June 29th, 2006 The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative which has been voted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, would "ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law; ban human cloning or attempted cloning; require expert medical and public oversight and annual reports on the nature and purpose of stem cell research; impose criminal and civil penalties for any violations; and prohibit state or local governments from preventing or discouraging lawful stem cell research, therapies and cures." The Rabbinical Association's resolution in support of the initiative states: "We the St.

November 10th, 2006 Missouri voters appear to have approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday that prevents state lawmakers from banning federally authorized embryonic stem cell research and treatments. With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, 51.1 percent of the votes were cast in favor of Amendment 2 and 48.9 percent opposed it.

March 28th, 2006 Do you consider a few collection of microscopic cells grown from a patients own skin cell a 'Clone'? Most of the Missourians say no and they are ready to vote for the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, a measure to protect medical research and treatments that are legal under federal law. Missouri voters overwhelmingly support the initiative by a ratio of more than 2-to-1.

October 13th, 2005 The support for stem cell research cuts across political, religious and socio-economic lines as clearly shown in a survey of 2,212 people conducted by the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University in US. The survey found that a clear majority (67%) either approve or strongly approve of stem cell research, and 40% would expand government support for embryonic stem cell research, including federal financing to create new stem cell lines.

September 16th, 2006 In November, Missouri voters will decide the future of embryonic stem cell research in the state. Until then, both sides of the debate are making their case in TV commercials.

October 21st, 2008 Latest news reveals that Michigan government has now decided to use ballot measure to determine the fate of state law that currently restricts embryonic stem cell research. But the question arises- Are the voters prepared to make such an educational decision about this complex, fast-emerging new field of medicine? Recently two study done by the University of Michigan C.S Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, and U-M Institute for Social Researchhas has answered this important question.