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US Senator Kirk Calls for Action on Stem Cell Law
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says he will work to pass legislation supporting the Obama administration's expansion of stem cell research.

The Illinois Republican made his remarks Monday at Northwestern University in Chicago where he toured a stem cell research lab and hosted a symposium on the approach to searching for disease cures.

Kirk supports federal legislation to codify an executive order issued by President Barack Obama in 2009 advancing stem cell research.

Kirk says if senior Democratic senators choose not to move the legislation in this Congress, he will. He says court challenges to taxpayer-financed stem cell research
make legislation necessary.

Kirk says the research offers ``the best promise'' to cure juvenile diabetes and certain blood cancers.

Opponents object because the cells were obtained from destroyed human embryos.

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