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Biotech Lobby and Patient Groups Urge Senate to Say Yes to Human Cloning.

National Right to Life News

| May 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Right to Life Committee, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WASHINGTON (May 7, 2002)--Despite the support of President Bush, the Brownback-Landrieu bill to ban the cloning of human embryos has run into a wall of stiff resistance in the U.S. Senate.

The biotechnology industry lobby and patient-advocacy groups are attacking the bill in costly advertising campaigns, including TV ads. The bill, authored by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Ks.), is also under fire from groups of scientists and from editorial boards at various newspapers.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), an opponent of the bill, had promised that the Senate would deal with the issue during May. But at NRL News deadline on May 7, it appeared increasingly ...

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