31.   Some conservative lawmakers have vowed to prevent public funding because the embryonic cells can only be obtained from human embryos or aborted fetuses.

32.   Snow and members of the House Democratic leadership said they would fight any attempt by abortion opponents to insert an amendment dealing with the disposal of aborted fetuses.

33.   So Dinwiddie Thursday morning took up her position outside the clinic, holding only a color poster of an aborted fetus.

34.   Stem cells have also been isolated in tissue from aborted fetuses, which may raise fewer qualms because the research itself did not cause the human life to end.

35.   Supporters of stem-cell research believe cells from embryos and aborted fetuses could be used to treat many diseases.

36.   That is to culture the cells from aborted fetuses.

37.   The approach is controversial because the major source of fetal nerve cells is aborted fetuses, and opponents of abortion say such uses will encourage elective abortions.

38.   The aborted fetus is then fully removed.

39.   The cells come, not from aborted fetuses, but from surplus petri-dish embryos created in fertility programs.

40.   The cells Gearhart used came from aborted fetuses, from a region destined to form the egg or sperm cells.