McCain says he doesn't oppose federal funding for stem cell research. And it's true, he doesn't. But his aides have been VERY cagey about saying whether, as President, he would lift President Bush's current restrictions on funding for EMBRYONIC stem cell research, which McCain has voted for in the past. Here's an email sent to the journal Nature just yesterday from McCain's top domestic policy advisor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin:

John McCain has a clear voting record on supporting federal funding for stem cell research. As president, he will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research..... Where federal funds are used for stem cell research, Senator McCain believes clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress, and that any such research should be subject to strict federal guidelines.

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