One Small Step in Stem Cell Research

To the Editor: Professor Green is quite right about the importance of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act ("Professor Advises Senate on Stem Cells," July 21). Although a narrow window of opportunity, allowing funding for only frozen embryos already slated for destruction, it is still a substantial step forward. All of us know a person with an incurable illness or injury -- an estimated one hundred million Americans have such chronic conditions -- people like my son, paralyzed in a football accident, almost eleven years ago. California passed a small law named after our son, the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act.