Word: nas
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...NAS recommendations come just in time for Congress to take up the topic again; debate is raging once again between the House and the Bush administration, both of which favor a full ban, and the Senate, where there is ample support for therapeutic cloning...
...Will the NAS decision make a difference in congressional deliberations...
...Rothstein: I think Congress has a very high regard for the NAS as an institution, but not necessarily for everything they do. So I doubt Congress would feel in any way bound by what the NAS recommends on this issue...
...surprised by the NAS recommendations...
...think the decision is actually pretty representative of mainstream opinion. If you asked a whole series of bio-ethicists and other scientists, you'd find an overwhelming number of them feel exactly the way the NAS panel apparently does...