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Just after the election of 2002, Utah Republican senator Orrin Hatch told me he was confident abortion and cloning would not be on top of the 108th Congress's agenda. Oh, how times change.
The Bush White House, from the State of the Union address onward, has made clear that abortion and cloning are issues it will press this year. Presidential adviser Karl Rove recently told reporters that both issues are among the administration's "immediate tasks at hand."
A new focus on medical and human-life issues was also suggested by heart surgeon Bill Frist's recent ascension to leadership of the Senate.
And around New Year's, the Clonaid cult claimed to have created the first human clone, with more on the way, pushing that nettlesome issue onto the docket of the new Congress.
The "life" issues are also coming up heavily in judicial nominations. Abortion-rights groups have been seeking ironclad promises that Democratic senators will ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Life isn't dead. (Scan).(cloning and abortion as Congress...