Republicans in Congress Decry Proposed Embryonic Stem-Cell Research at NIH

A large contingent of Congressional Republicans objected this month to the National Institutes of Health's plan to support research that uses human stem cells obtained from human embryos or fetuses.

In two letters sent to Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 70 members of the House of Representatives and seven Senators said that the use of federal funds for such research would violate both

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