A rider added to the state budget bill by the Senate Finance Committee on Monday would undermine critical medical research into treatments for serious diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, the head of Texans for the Advancement of Medical Research (TAMR) warned today.
On Tuesday the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-5 to add a rider to the budget bill, authored by committee Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, that would bar public funds “used in conjunction with or to support research which involves the destruction of a human embryo.”
