House Leaders Agree to Vote on Relaxing Stem Cell Limits
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A03
The House leadership has agreed to allow a floor vote on a bill that would loosen the restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research imposed by President Bush in 2001, according to members of Congress and others privy to the arrangement.
The vote, expected to take place within the next two to three months, would be the first of its kind on the politically charged topic since Bush declared much of the research off-limits to federal funding. The cells show promise as treatments for many diseases but have stirred intense controversy because they are retrieved from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64316-2005Mar24.html?referrer=email
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A03
The House leadership has agreed to allow a floor vote on a bill that would loosen the restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research imposed by President Bush in 2001, according to members of Congress and others privy to the arrangement.
The vote, expected to take place within the next two to three months, would be the first of its kind on the politically charged topic since Bush declared much of the research off-limits to federal funding. The cells show promise as treatments for many diseases but have stirred intense controversy because they are retrieved from human embryos, which are destroyed in the process.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64316-2005Mar24.html?referrer=email
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