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...Even if the matter did reach the Council, Tehran may be assuming that Russia and China would veto any attempt to impose sanctions. "In legal terms, nothing has been done wrong by Iran that can be taken to the Security Council," Iran's foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi said in a recent interview with TIME. If the U.S. presents the matter to the Council, he added, "I don't think that would lead to any result that would be wished by the Americans...
...concerned about cloning," President Bush said in response to the news. "I worry about a world in which cloning becomes accepted." If Congress manages to pass a bill it is considering that would lift some of the restrictions on stem-cell research in the U.S., the President promised to veto...
Several states have seen others' lack of legislation as an opportunity. The Massachusetts legislature last week backed a pro-research bill by a margin large enough to override an expected veto from Governor Mitt Romney, who promptly sent the bill back to lawmakers with four proposed amendments to weaken it. Zon says the bill, if enacted, would make Massachusetts more "stem cell friendly" than most states. California is the friendliest. Voters there approved Proposition 71 last November, backing $3 billion in state bonds to create a stem-cell-research fund, although delays in creating regulatory boards plus two lawsuits filed...
That's an excruciating prospect for the White House, made all the more so by the fact that a rejection of the stem-cell legislation would be Bush's first veto ever. Opponents of embryonic-stem-cell research say they have received private assurances from the White House that the President will stay true to his word, and they are working to get enough votes on their side so that the veto cannot be overturned. Meanwhile, White House aides are huddling with some congressional leaders to come up with an alternative measure of some kind that, in the words...
...weeks ago, the House voted 119-38 to approve the compromise bill, which was met with an overwhelming 34-2 vote of approval in the Senate. This is more than the requisite two-thirds of the legislature needed to veto the governor’s expected veto...