TRENTON — To mark the 33rd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, New Jersey abortion foes rallied Monday to renew their opposition to that Supreme Court decision and crank up protests of state-funded embryonic stem-cell research.

About 300 activists outside the Statehouse called for an end to abortion and the denial of lawmakers' plans to ask voters to approve pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into stem-cell research. The anniversary of the ruling was Sunday.

"Our message to Gov. Corzine is: Don't squander our money on phony and embryonic stem-cell research," said Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life. "Funding this research is not only wholly unethical; it is a waste of taxpayer money."

In 1973, the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights, which has sprouted other ethical debates such as embryonic stem-cell research. Advocates believe

the research will lead to disease cures, but opponents doubt that and say the research kills embryos.

Cecilia Cichon, 64, of Maple Shade, said she protested "really to save America. We've already killed 50 million-of our babies. That's the population of the West Coast. People can't continue to do this we'll have no country."

Dawn Parkot, 34, of Morristown, said she'd like to regain speech and movement lost to cerebral palsy and other ailments but said, "I have no right to let a child die. ... What gives the entitlement to political leaders, researchers or scientists to decide who will live or die?"

Though in a liberal state with a newly inducted Gov. Jon S. Corzine, who supports abortion rights and stem-cell research, Tasy said she remained confident Roe v. Wade will be overturned nationally and in New Jersey.

"New Jersey was the last (northern) state to abolish slavery, and even if we are the last state to abolish abortion, it will happen eventually," Tasy said.