81.   Congress has forbidden the use of federal funds for any research in which a human embryo is destroyed.

82.   Cook, a Kansas lawmaker from Shawnee, believes research using stem cells from human embryos holds hope for her children.

83.   Current restrictions prohibit the use of federal funds for cloning research involving human embryos.

84.   Current law prohibits federal money from being used for research that would destroy human embryos, but does not directly refer to stem cell research.

85.   Despite a ban on using federal money for investigations involving human embryos, the research and treatment go on.

86.   Despite this potential, stem cell research has lagged because of unresolved ethical and political debates over the use of human embryos to obtain the key cells.

87.   Doctors have become skilled at creating human embryos, and anguished, infertile couples are more than willing to pay for whatever infertility clinics can offer.

88.   Doerflinger said advances in the use of adult stem cells would eventually make it unnecessary to get stem cells from human embryos.

89.   Dr. Richard T. Scott Jr., an endocrinologist at Reproductive Medicine Associates of Morristown, N.J., working with human embryos.

90.   Earlier this year, President Bush said federal money could no longer be used for cloning research involving human embryos.