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Oklahoma Courage
OKLAHOMA COURAGE: Governor Brad Henry and Chamber of Commerce Take Stand For Stem Cells By Don C. Reed Imagine you are Brad Henry, Governor of Oklahoma—a Democrat in a state as overwhelmingly Republican as California is Democratic—and you are a strong supporter of...
Texas Tornado
TEXAS TORNADO: Three Billion dollars in Cancer Research May be Swept Away Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent recommendation that Texas secede from America was nonsensical. If the Governor is so uncomfortable in our country that he wishes to leave, that is his right;...
President Obama
OBAMA AND THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY Before my son Roman received a spinal cord injury, I never gave much thought as to what it meant to be disabled. I was polite, of course. If I met a person in a wheelchair, I just went around. But what was it like to be denied the...
North Dakota
NORTH DAKOTA, STEM CELLS, AND THE GREAT “PERSONHOOD” LIE Filling sandbags against a raging river, North Dakota citizens inspired the world not long ago. Shoulder to shoulder the residents of Fargo, North Dakota worked, long nights in the pouring rain-- and they built...
One phone call
ONE PHONE CALL—TO SAVE TEXAS STEM CELL RESEARCH RIGHTS! by Don C. Reed Dear Friends: Anti-research forces in Texas are trying to pull a fast one, to kill all hopes for embryonic stem cell research in the state, permanently. They are doing it two ways. First, Senator...
A year in the life
A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF CALIFORNIA’S STEM CELL RESEARCH PROGRAM By Don C. Reed Imagine that you and I are involved in a terrible war, against a relentless enemy which fully intends to kill us and all our families. But we are fighting back hard, and despite tremendous...
At the White House
YESTERDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE by Don C. Reed Dear Stem Cell Research Advocate: Yesterday, being in the room when President Obama signed an executive order reversing ideological restrictions on embryonic stem cell research was an honor and a delight. But for my...
In Memory Of
IN MEMORY OF JERRY YANG Humanity stands on the shoulders of its champions: men and women who work, often in obscurity, all their lives, and when they die, become part of the great mountains. On December 31, 2008, I received the following email, which I now keep in a...
The Return of
THE RETURN OF JOHN REED By Don C. Reed On the 29th and 30th of this month, there will be a meeting of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, (ICOC), governing body of the California stem cell program. This one will be in San Francisco. As always, you are...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023