Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It

CNS News ^ | March 13, 2009 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[napscoordinator]

That is why I can’t figure him out. People scream that he is the worst liberal in history (I think it is Carter) but then he goes and does this. This is not liberal behavior...

[Right Wing Assault]

I think this was another, “I screwed up.”

[liberateUS]

"It’s the revolving door of ‘CHANGE’!"

It's CHANGE I belive in!

[elfman2]

It looks like the headline is misleading because "The amendment says, in part: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for..." It apparently does not prohibit anything other than direct federal funding from this Act. If I'm reading this correctly, universities receiving federal funds can still do the research with other federal funds, state funds or other funds.

[American in Israel]

Obviously our new Presidente is not doing his job, he is just faking it. What use is his signature if he does not even read the bills?

The local homeless bum will provide the same service for much cheaper than Obama.

[American in Israel]

I am sure it was just a technical mistake. His teleprompter must have been down.

[bill1952]

We all know that hussein didn’t read the bill.

Does anyone here seriously believe that the feds are going to enfore this?

[Daffynition]

[CommieCutter]

Hang on:

The amendment says, in part: “None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

I think it just prevents use of the money from this appropriation bill. Not necessarily from another bill.

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If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

[Gondring]

The Big 0 did the right thing on this. Our country shouldn’t be run via executive order. Sending it to the legislative branch was right.

[Gondring]

He didn’t re-instate the ban alone. Congress did.

[Gondring]

Right.

[DYngbld]

Found in Section 509 of Title V of the omnibus bill (at page 280 of the 465-page document), the federal funding ban not only prohibits the government from providing tax dollars to support research that kills or risks injury to a human embryo, it also mandates that the government use an all-inclusive definition of “human embryo” that encompasses any nascent human life from the moment that life comes into being, even if created in a laboratory through cloning, in vitro fertilization or any other means.

It also looks as if this bill gives a definition as to when life begins?

[Reader of news]

SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). (b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

The Section 509 just refers to "the funds made available in" that "Act". I think unfortunately it doesn't exclude that embryonic stem cell research can be funded by means of other acts or by the decision taken by President Obama.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It's obvious this assclown did not read what he was signing.

It's like those professors that graded a paper without reading it, proven by students who would add absurd statements in the middle of it to see if the professor would catch them.

Kudos for the legislators that slipped this in under the radar.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Not only is your idea too complicated for the Zero, any state senator that can argue THREE TIMES from the floor to allow doctors to wheel a baby still alive after a botched abortion into a closet to allow it to die, would NOT intentionally allow this amendment to slip through.

He didn’t read it.

[CRBDeuce]

They are talking about federally funding research that has failed to show ANY promise of success. They are trying to fund failure! (Why am I still surprised at this??)

They [The Federal Government] spend ALL tax dollars as efficiently as drunken sailors, 'tis what's been done for more than 60 years as democrat act after act costs trillions in 'unintended consequenses' on top of the thousands well spent! This simple reason alone is why the States should disband the federal government (now that China is the World Cop-in-chief), reinstate militias (other states may vote to fund core military units required to be larger than one state's budget for National Security), and stop sending Washington DC the pork dollars that are returned as pennies! Other than the 1994 Republican Contract With America, the 12 years Repubs were 'in charge' were essentially wasted due to Enron and WorldCom (and other) knee-jerk legislation. Return the federal gov't to a Constitutional Federal Gov't, with a Senate representing States' interests (treaties, etc), and the House can continue to play the Kangaroo Kongress game they've been playing, but with Monopoly money instead of the real thing! America would be much better off, and Pelosi would then fit the role!

[ichabod1]

Oh, I see. He voted present. He threw it into Congress’ court.

[popdonnelly]

See, nobody knows what’s in those bills.

[Canedawg]

Did it ever occur to themthat you should read what you sign?

Reading bills is so passe- doncha know this the change we've been waiting for? /s