This is a matter we had a lot of debate about. a lot of discussion. a lot of correspondence from my State. from many Americans across the Nation. The conference report includes a provision to list HIV infection as a communicable disease. As my colleagues may very well remember. this was a topic of very great concern several months ago when the Clinton administration signaled its intent to lift the ban on HIV immigration to allow hundreds. potentially thousands of HIVpositive individuals to immigrate into the United States. which clearly would result in an incredibly difficult burden on an already strapped national health care system. not to mention an extraordinary cost involved which nobody has been able to calculate. While I am grateful for the immigration language in the bill. I very much remain opposed to the effort to nullify the existing ban on using Federal funds for the controversial fetal tissue issue research question. using fetal tissue research from aborted babies seems to me to send a very mixed message about health care. I am very concerned that this change in policy will lead to more abortions.
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