Bioethics Council Suggests Compromises and Restrictions for Embryo Research

President Bush's bioethics council released a report last week that five council members said offered support for easing the president's policy limiting federal financing for human embryonic stem-cell research.

The debate over stem cells, though, is hardly over. In a separate statement, five other members of the 18-member panel wrote that its recommendations were consistent with the president's existing policy, which limits funds to studies involving stem-cell colonies, or "lines,"

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