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THE SENATE debate this week on stem cell research is freighted with consequences for the future health of humanity and for the politics of 2006 and 2008.
To deal with first things first, when the House passed stem cell legislation in May 2005 by a margin of 238-194, 50 Republicans joined with almost all the chamber's Democrats in support. The House bill would expand the supply of embryonic stem cells by allowing federally funded research on cells derived from embryos created for fertility treatments or donated from in vitro fertilization clinics. Those embryos would have to be in excess of the clinical needs for infertility treatments and otherwise destined to be discarded. They would have to be obtained with written consent and acquired without any payment to the donors.See the full content of this document
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Issue Affecting Nearly Everyone
Despite all those precautions, opponents say the destruction of the days-old embryos is the taking of human life the equivalent of murder. President Bush shares that view, and that is why he issued an exe...
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