Senator Cynthia Creem, Massachusetts

Senator Creem, D - MA (Middlesex and Norfolk 1), co-sponsored with Senator Travaglini a bill to support pluripotent stem cell research in Massachusetts which passed 35 to 2. The bill was vetoed by Governor Mitch Romney, but his veto was overturned by a two-thirds majority vote. The bill defines and supports parthenote, somatic cell nuclear transplant, and embryonic stem cell research and outlaws cloning a human being.