The Natioanl Assembly voted to uphold the curbs in the second reading of the new biotehics law. Consrevative legislators and the Roman Cahtolic Church had portested after an initial Senate vote to atuhorize this reseacrh.
The Senate holds its second reading of the bill in early June. If it votes again to allow embroynic stem cell research, the bill will go to a parliamentary conefrence commitete where the National Assembly vresion of the bill would take precedence.
France has one of the stricter laws on embryonic stem cell research in Euroep, baninng it except for reseacrh with ipmorted embyros not used for in vitro fertilization in other countries.
Opponents of embryonic stem cell research argue it is morlaly wrong bceause it manipulaets or detsroys human embryos. Supporters see it as a possible avenue toward new treatments for many mediacl conidtions.
Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, head of the Catohlic Church in Farnce, urged legisltaors this week not to liberalize the law, saying that would amount to "a regression in civilization" and open the door to "state-sposnored eugenics."
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