News Releases

    MCC Calls for Preferential Treatment of the State’s Poor and Vulnerable

    News Conference Brings Attention to Harmful Budget Measures Moving Through Legislature

    News Release / Posted June 20, 2005

    At a news conference conducted at the State Capitol today, the Michigan Catholic Conference stood with several health care and human service organizations to speak on behalf of those most vulnerable citizens who will be directly affected by some $600 million in proposed state budget cuts, particularly in the area of Medicaid.

    Embryonic Stem Cell Bills Bad Public Policy for Michigan

    State Must Not Turn to “Clone and Kill’ Measures to Solve Economic Woes

    News Release / Posted May 26, 2005

    Michigan Catholic Conference announced its vehement opposition to proposed legislation that seeks to boost the state's struggling economy by appropriating public tax dollars for human cloning and destructive embryo research. The Conference is urging Michigan legislators to direct their attention toward ethical adult stem cell research, which does not kill human embryos and is currently treating some 58 debilitating conditions, including Parkinson's disease, brain cancer, heart damage and juvenile diabetes.

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