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National Right to Life Criticizes Senate Passage of Bill to Mandate Funding of Embryo-Killing Research.
WASHINGTON (April 25, 2007) The U.S. Senate on April 11 approved legislation (S. 5) that would mandate federal funding of the type of stem cell research that requires the killing of human embryos.
President Bush says that he will veto the legislation.
The House of Representatives passed very similar legislation (H.R. 3) on January 11 by a vote of 253-174, which was 32 votes short of the two-thirds majority that would be required to override a veto. (See February NRL News, pages 22-23.) However, the House must also give final approval to S. 5 before it can be sent to President Bush. As of NRL News deadline on April 25, the House Democratic majority leadership had not yet announced when that vote would occur, but it is expected sometime during May. The veto is expected to follow soon thereafter.
In the Senate, the bill was supported by 44 Democrats, two independents, and 17 Republicans. It was opposed by two Democrats (Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania), and by 32 Republicans. Three Democratic supporters of the bill were absent.
The margin by which the Senate passed S. 5, 63-34, was two votes short of a two-thirds majority. If the three absent supporters had all had been present, the tally would have been 66-34 one vote short of a two-thirds majority.
(The Senate roll call can be viewed in the NRLC Senate scorecard in the Legislative Action Center on the NRLC website, at http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/home/ )
Commenting on the Senate's action, Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), said: "The congressional Democratic leadership is again engaged in political demagoguery, making claims for embryonic stem cell research that go far beyond any evidence. Not a single human patient has yet been helped by stem cells obtained by killing human embryos. Meanwhile, many thousands of human patients have been helped with other types of stem cells, obtained in non-controversial ways that do not require harming ...
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