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This is about embryonic stem cells taken from the amniotic fluid after a baby is born, not fetal stem cells. It doesn't involve the termination of a fetus, so in that respect Rush is still right.

The stem cells in amniotic fluid are, technically, fetal, since a baby, until it is born, is a fetus. They aren't embryonic since the cells involved in that stage of development are long gone.

It's a different source for the same types of stem cells that Limbaugh & Co. keep saying are a waste of time anyway.

Nope. These are not the totipotent cells known as embryonic stem cells. And it's not Limbaugh & Co., it's the group of researchers who have discovered what really works versus what has never worked. The reason they went in the direction of using adult stem cells is because it worked. Those stem cell researchers who rolled their dice on embryonic stem cells have come up snake-eyes. They're upset and they want what they consider to be their piece of the NIH pie.