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'Embryonic-Like' Cell Discovery Could Affect Ethics Debate
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
August 19, 2005
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"There is also far less likelihood of such cells being rejected when they are transplanted into people with liver disease, for example."
Four years after President Bush restricted the use of taxpayers' dollars for human embryonic stem cell research, the issue is as contentious as ever.
A bill expanding federal funding for the work has passed the House, and is now before the Senate, where majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) late last month stunned Americans on both sides of the debate by expressing support for the measure.
The president has declared his intention to veto the bill, and the White House said on the day of Frist's announcement that the position had not changed.
In an Aug. 8 Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today, 56 percent of respondents backed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research while 40 percent opposed it. An earlier Gallup poll, on May 26, went 60-33 in favor of federal funding.
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