
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 26, 1993                   TAG: 9305260107
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AIDS-IMMIGRANT BAN APPROVED BY HOUSE

The House gave final approval Tuesday to a medical research bill that bans AIDS-infected immigrants and allows for fetal tissue research.

By a 290-130 vote, the House returned to the Senate a bill that authorizes $6 billion for the National Institutes of Health and directs new research money for breast and ovarian cancer, contraception and fertility, osteoporosis and other medical issues.

In the end, even some lawmakers who objected to the AIDS ban voted for the bill, saying women's health research that had been neglected for years was too important.

Yes votes included Virginia Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, and L.F. Payne, D-Nelson County.

Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, voted no.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a key sponsor of the bill, said the AIDS ban was discriminatory, but he had decided it was a losing battle in Congress.

- Associated Press

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB