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Biotech / Medical : Stem Cell Research -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LJM who wrote (104)	5/20/2005 12:31:16 PM
From: tom pope	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 495

Pretty straight answer. Is this quote correct in the Korean case? amounted to human cloning for the sole purpose of scientific research White House Condemns Korean Research on Cloning Embryos By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 20, 2005 Filed at 12:07 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Friday said he would veto legislation that would loosen restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and expressed deep concern about human cloning research in South Korea. ''I'm very concerned about cloning,'' the president said. ''I worry about a world in which cloning becomes accepted.'' White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy said the work in South Korea amounted to human cloning for the sole purpose of scientific research. ''The president is opposed to that,'' Duffy said. ''That represents exactly what we're opposed to.'' South Korean researchers, funded by their government, reported producing human embryos through cloning and then extracting their stem cells. It is a major advancement in the quest to grow patients' own replacement tissue to treat diseases. The president also threatened a veto of legislation that would clear the way for taxpayer money to be spent on embryonic stem cell research. A measure by Reps. Mike Castle, R-Del., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo., would lift Bush's 2001 ban on the use of federal dollars for research using any new embryonic stem cell lines. ''I made very clear to Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayer's money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life -- I'm against that,'' Bush said. ''Therefore, if the bill does that, I would veto it.'' Bush, in his fifth year in office, has not yet exercised his first veto. The White House also promised a veto this week of a highway bill if it exceeded the administration's spending limits. Bush began the day at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast where he was cheered for urging people to ''pray that America uses the gift of freedom to build a culture of life.'' The remark was a public reaffirmation of his position on sensitive issues such as abortion and stem cell research. Bush recalled the legacy of the late Pope John Paul II and said, ''The best way to honor this great champion of human freedom is to continue to build a culture of life where the strong protect the weak.'' Bush won 52 percent of the Roman Catholic vote in last year's election and got the support of 56 percent of white Catholics, defeating the first Catholic presidential candidate from a major party since John F. Kennedy. In 2000, Bush narrowly lost the Catholic vote.