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LINCOLN, Neb. ---- The Nebraska Legislature session that opens next Wednesday
will address the long-simmering, religiously freighted issues of cloning and
stem-cell research.
One proposal would ban both reproductive cloning and so-called therapeutic
cloning ---- the creation of embryos for stem-cell research using somatic cell
nuclear transfer. Another bill would ban reproductive cloning but permit embryo
research for therapeutic cloning.
A pre-session survey of members of Nebraska's unicameral legislature showed 20
supported the broader ban, 11 backed the second bill, 12 favored neither and 6
did not answer. On a different point, 23 said the state should encourage
stem-cell research, though many opposed embryonic research and four wanted to
ban all stem-cell research.
Yet another pending bill would ban use of state money or state facilities for
any research that destroys human embryos, whether from fertilization clinics,
aborted fetuses or the nuclear transfer technique.
Scientists think embryonic cells have potential to grow replacement organs or
cure conditions such as Parkinson's disease and paralysis. But social and
religious conservatives oppose this because the human embryos are destroyed
when stem cells are extracted; instead, they favor research on stem cells from
umbilical cords or from adults.
Connecticut recently approved $100 million to promote embryonic research,
following similar action in Massachusetts, California and New Jersey.
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