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Article: Biotech Lobby and Patient Groups Urge Senate to Say Yes to Human Cloning.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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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 ...