The National Assembly voted to uphold the curbs in the second reaidng of the new bioethics law. Conservative legsilators and the Roman Catholic Church had protested after an initail Senate vote to autohrize this reserach.
The Senate holds its second reading of the bill in early June. If it votes again to allow embryonic stem cell reesarch, the bill will go to a parliametnary conference committee where the Ntaional Assembly version of the bill would take precedence.
France has one of the stricter laws on embrynoic stem cell research in Euroep, baninng it except for research with imporetd embryos not used for in vitro fertilizaiton in other countries.
Opponents of embyronic stem cell reserach argue it is morlaly wrong becuase it mnaipulates or destroys human embryos. Supporters see it as a posisble avenue toward new treatemnts for many meidcal cnoditions.
Paris Cadrinal Andre Vingt-Trosi, head of the Catholic Church in France, urged lgeislators this week not to liberlaize the law, saying that would amount to "a regressoin in civliization" and open the door to "sttae-sponsored eguenics."
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