House Defeats Democrats' Cloning Bill ; Critics Warn of Loophole On Embryos
The Washington Times › June 07, 2007
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The House yesterday narrowly rejected a hastily introduced Democratic bill that critics said would have provided a legal loophole for the destruction of human embryos for scientific research.
The Human Cloning Prohibition Act, sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, Colorado Democrat, would have prohibited any person from performing or attempting to perform human cloning. The bill was defeated by a vote of 213-204, with 31 Democrats joining 182 Republicans in voting against the bill and 190 Democrats and 14 Republicans supporting it.See the full content of this document
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House Defeats Democrats' Cloning Bill ; Critics Warn of Loophole On Embryos
But critics say the bill's definition of human cloning as the "implantation of the product of human somatic ce...
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