Spitzer's Stem Cell Plan Puts Ethics First

It's in The Times ... writes Confessore:

The grants themselves would be subject to peer review by a new Stem Cell Commission, which would also be responsible for enforcing the research guidelines. Those measures, Mr. Paterson said, would ensure that all embryonic research in New York was "legal, vital and ethical."

Oh and he's upped the ante - to $2 billion.
[hat tips: Greg Dahlmann, Jim Fossett]