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...simple. She lost her seat two years later, although she regained it the following year. Some were not entirely impressed at her efforts to represent India?s poorest - a prominent human rights group slammed her for siding with carpet manufacturers in her constituency in a fight to overturn a ban on child labor...
Between these two emotionally charged armies, Bush was scrambling to find the makings of a truce. Could he maybe keep the ban but allow research to continue on the cell lines that scientists have already developed? No way, say the pro-lifers. A priest writing in last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal called that "material cooperation with evil." The research forces, for their part, argue that there aren't enough cell lines yet to do any meaningful research...
Then perhaps the President could keep his promise to conservatives by coming out in favor of a big increase in funding for research on adult stem cells--research that is uncontroversial--but ban the work that requires destroying embryos? If he couched his position as being in favor of research but opposed to destroying potential babies, he could perhaps finesse the issue. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said that would be an acceptable compromise. But scientists and their backers in the world of patients would hate that solution, since research on adult stem cells, while promising, has three...
KARL ROVE W.'s Svengali implicated in idea to let Salvation Army ban gays. Back to Texas by fall...
...Last week, the two men joined forces to try to muscle House members into voting for the legislation, which would ban unregulated "soft money" contributions to national parties. (It totaled $487 million in the 2000 election.) Gephardt worked the phones to stanch hemorrhaging by Democrats, who provide the bulk of support for the bill. McCain, who shepherded a similar measure through the Senate last April, targeted some 40 GOP congressmen who've backed reform in the past. His Straight Talk America PAC, for example, sent e- mails to 200,000 supporters across the country urging them to flood the congressional...