August 3, 2001

House Panel Approves Anti-Cloning Bill Opposed by Many Research Groups

By DAN CURRY

A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved a bill last week that would ban all cloning of human embryos, whether for reproductive ends or for research. Many research organizations opposed the bill as too broad and as a potentially dangerous government intervention into university laboratories.

The bill, H.R. 2505, sponsored by Rep. Dave Weldon, a Florida Republican, passed through the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 18 to 11 without amendments and will be the first of

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