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I extracted the following from http://hillsource.house.gov/LegislativeDigest/Digest/DigestMain /wk27pt1--Omnibus.htm It appears federal funding of fetal research is again banned. The previous ban, put in place in 1988 under Reagan as a Health and Human Services regulation, was lifted by Clinton. Phil --------------------------------------------------------------- FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act H.R. ___; H.R. 4328 (Conference Report) Committee on Appropriations H.Rept. 105-825 Submitted by Mr. Livingston on October 19, 1998 Please Note: At press time, the committee report for the omnibus bill was unavailable. The following summary is based on information provided by the Appropriations Committee staff. ... * Human Embryo Research. The bill prohibits any human embryo research funded by the federal government, regardless of whether the embryo was specifically created for the research or not. Proponents of embryo research point to a number of medical advances to which embryo research is vital and argue that with this prohibition, future advances may be lost. Opponents of embryo research argue that the research is experimenting with human life and an attack on decency, not to mention that it promotes the creation of a market of fertilized embryos.