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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature voted to override the governor's "partial veto" of a bill promoting embryonic stem-cell research over the strong objections of the state's Catholic bishops, Catholic leaders in Delaware and Michigan geared up for similar battles. "For the first time in our nation's history, we will be giving government approval for the systematic destruction of innocent human beings so that their body parts can be harvested for scientific research," said Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli of Wilmington, Del., in a May 26 pastoral statement about the Delaware Regenerative Medicine Act, expected to be...