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Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/29/stem.cells/index.html
Washington (CNN) -- A federal court has given the Obama administration the go-ahead to continue funding embryonic stem cell research.
The controversial 2-1 decision Friday is a victory for supporters of federally funded testing for a range of diseases and illnesses.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia lifted an injunction imposed last year by a federal judge, who said all embryonic stem cell research at the National Ins utes of Health amounted to destruction of embryos, in violation of congressional spending laws.
Legislation passed in 1996 prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in the creation or destruction of human embryos "for research purposes." Private money had been used to gather batches of the developing cells at U.S.-run labs. The current administration had broken with the Bush White House and issued rules in 2009 permitting those cells to be reproduced in controlled conditions and for work on them to move forward.
Obama officials have been at odds with many members of Congress over whether the the NIH research actually causes an embryo's destruction, as prohibited by the ey-Wicker Act.
Two scientists had brought a lawsuit to block further research. But the three-judge panel concluded in their 21-page ruling, "the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail because ey-Wicker is ambiguous and the NIH seems reasonably to have concluded" that the law does not ban research using embryonic stem cells.
Good.
As it should be.
So you guys agree with harvesting a growing human life and destroying it for science?
-There are abortions performed every day.
-There is research being done using these aborted embryos whether the US government pays for it or not.
-The US government can and does spend money in drastically more immoral ways.
Basically.
And we don't need to spend government money on everyone sick pet projects. Let the commercial sector spend money here.
What should the government spend money on WC?
As allowed by cons ution.
So it's ok to allow 'harvesting a growing human life and destroying it for science' if the private sector does it?
what does the cons ution allow?
That's not OK in my eyes but at least it isn't being done with government money.
what happens to the unused embryos?
What difference does it make if you don't like it either way?
Because I'm a tax payer and it's a waste of money when we have such large deficits. These unnecessary things must go away.What difference does it make if you don't like it either way?
Why can't liberals fund their own pet projects with donations? If it's a worthy cause, people will donate.
They are all destroyed in abortion clinics across the US.
It's sort of like donating your dead body to science so some med school kids can cut in to it and learn, but more important.
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