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Article: Brownback Seeking Alternate Ways To Pass Cloning Ban.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Washington Editor
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is trying some creative ways of getting the Senate to support a ban on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
Most recently, Brownback, of Kansas, latched an amendment to a terrorism bill that would prohibit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from issuing patents for cloned humans and for the technology that creates them. The measure ended up failing in a 65-to-31 vote. (PTO policy prohibits patents on human body parts and on whole humans.)
Last week Brownback stopped the Senate debate on cloning before it started by refusing to accept debate terms proposed by the ...
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