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Both bills before the House promised to outlaw "reproductive cloning," i.e., cloning to create a baby. But lawmakers had to decide what price they would pay to make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose and punish violators with 10 years in jail and a $1 million fine. The alternative amendment, introduced by Republican Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious...
...others considered it meaningless: Senate majority leader Tom Daschle indicated that no such bill would come to a vote in the Senate, which meant House members could cast a symbolic pro-life vote without its having any actual effect. That helps explain the lopsided, 265-to-162 win for Weldon's bill...
...Both the prevailing bill, sponsored by Florida Republican Dave Weldon, and the unsuccessful version, backed by Jim Greenwood, Republican of Pennsylvania, would ban human cloning. It?s the question of embryonic cloning that divides the two. Weldon?s bill puts an absolute stop to the creation of embryos, and makes it unlawful to ship or receive for any purpose any embryo produced by human cloning. Greenwood?s version provides the possibility of cloning embryos for research purposes...
...Cloning is now bound for the Senate, where everyone expects continued heated debate. And while a final compromise bill will probably not look exactly like Weldon?s, it?s quite possible the spirit of his restrictions will remain. What would that mean for stem cell research...
...approving the wide-reaching ban on human cell cloning rather than the less restrictive bill, the House has effectively eliminated the most efficient and promising source of human stem cells. (The Weldon bill provides a10-year prison term and a $1 million fine as disincentives for would-be rogue scientists tempted to overlook...