[Between the Lines]

However, she concluded that because human embryonic stem cells "are not a human embryo within the statutory definition," the Dickey-Wicker Amendment does not apply to them.

This is why the Dickey-Wicket Amendmendment was changed since then to inculde this

(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.

[mquinn]

Maybe it is a bit cynical, but they’ll just weasel their way around that as well.