” “"I feel there’s some disagreement within the European Parliament" on the EU funding to research based on the use of embryo stem cells. Carlo Casini, MEP and president of the Italian pro-life movement, explains to SIR the reasons behind a new political policy, in the run-up to the final launch of the Seventh Framework Program. Along with colleague Iles Braghetto, Casini submitted some "measures to avoid misunderstandings" in Brussels today. The purpose is "not to let any EU money being used to destroy human beings at the initial stage of their life". "Since Barroso’s Commission add the two MEPs added to the shared position the commitment not to fund the extraction of cell strains from human embryos, but just research from cells thus extracted, they ask that a genuine interpretation of such statement be phrased to the effect that the extraction of the cell strains must have occurred before the approval of the Framework Program". A letter has been sent to such effect to the president of Barroso’s Commission and to the pro tem president of the EU, Vanhanen.” “
