Oklahoma House Passes Bill Limiting Human Embryonic Research

BY RANDY ELLIS, Capitol BureauA bill to limit human embryonic research and require the state Board of Health to establish standards for abortion clinics was approved Thursday by the state House of Representatives. The bill, as originally written, would require the Board of Health to develop standards for abortion clinics and included several pages listing equipment and supplies that abortion clinics must have to meet the standards. It was amended in the House to include a provision banning any person from knowingly conducting “nontherapeutic research that destroys a human embryo or subjects a human embryo to substantial risk of injury or death.” Debate was passionate, with presiding officer Gus Blackwell at one point threatening to call the Sergeant at Arms and Capitol highway patrol officers to have state Rep.Read more on NewsOK.com

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