Washington D.C., Oct 28, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Mel Gibson has come out strongly against a California ballot measure that would permit state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and has urged California's citizens to vote no on the ballot measure next Tuesday.
The Catholic actor says he has an "ethical problem" with Proposition 71, the $3-billion bond measure to fund human embryonic stem-cell research.
The director of one of this year’s box office successes, “The Passion of the Christ,” appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" yesterday and said he shouldn't have to pay taxes to help fund the cloning of human embryos.
Gibson told “Good Morning America” that he called Arnold Schwarzenegger the previous evening to talk about the issue and that the governor told him he had to make a speech and would call him back.