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Article: Stem-Cell Bill Clears New Jersey Legislature.
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- December 16, 2003
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By Kaitlin Gurney, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 16--TRENTON, N.J.--New Jersey will become the second state to sanction stem-cell research after the Assembly yesterday narrowly passed a bill to authorize the use of discarded embryos for scientific purposes.
The vote ended a yearlong debate that pitted patients' groups against abortion foes and religious conservatives. Members of both groups, wearing T-shirts, hats and stickers for their cause, vied for space to watch the emotional Assembly debate, which was resolved by one vote.
After the Senate passed the stem-cell proposal last December, the bill ...