FRANKFORT — A bill to ban human cloning gained new life Wednesday when a Senate committee, in an about-face, approved the measure. Opponents said it would stifle medical research.

        At a hastily convened meeting, the bill mustered the minimum six votes needed to clear the Judiciary Committee. The bill now heads to the full Senate, where supporters said it had enough votes to pass.

        The bill had stalled in the same committee earlier in the day.

        The part of the bill to ban human cloning has broad support. But it goes further to prohibit a procedure to create human cells in the laboratory that can be used for research.

        Supporters, led by abortion opponents, say those cells create a human embryo which must be protected.

        Officials from the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville disagree and contend the bill would cost the schools millions of dollars for research.

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