Posted on 08/24/2010 12:27:37 AM PDT by topher
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Obama administration Monday from using federal dollars to fund expanded human embryonic stem cell research, saying the research involves the destruction of embryos.
The ruling comes after the National Institutes of Health last year issued new guidelines permitting federal funding for research on certain stem cell lines that had already been created.
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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that despite attempts to separate the derivation of human embryonic stem cells from the research process, "the two cannot be separated" because culling those stem cells destroys an embryo.
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He definitely won one for the Gipper! The Gipper must be smiling from heaven about this!
Never mind that it has been a total failure.
Has embroynic stem-cell research produced even one, single useful medical benefit?
Some of these folks should be thrown in jail not for killing the unborn, but also for the taxpayer fraud involved (which I would include HHS Secretary Sebelius as well as President Obama to be part of this fraud).
However, Adult Stem cell Research has produced significant breakthroughs such as to repair nerve damage. I believe one of the findings was being able to restore sight to a person.
There may be one or two very minor medical breakthroughs on embryonic, but there usefulness may be doubtful.
Needs to be researched...
It pays for research positions.
Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic
Says the only short term success paying for lab tools, learning the roots of disease, and screening potential drugs,/font>.
This quote from the article sounds very sarcastic. There are other way to do those three things -- test drugs, buy lab tools, and learn about diseases.
For examples, animals that have physiology and anatomy very similar to humans can and are used for testing.
There was another article:
Adult vs. embryonic stem cell success now quoted at 70 to 0 is a dated article -- from 2006.
That may mean it is now 120 to 0...
Citing the 1995 Dickey Amendment, in which Congress banned the federal funding of “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed,” the US District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily halted the Obama administration’s expanded funding of human embryonic stem cell research. “Embryonic stem cell (ESC) research necessarily depends upon the destruction of a human embryo,” wrote Judge Royce Lamberth.
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This is great news.
This was strictly due to a technical reading of the law passed in 1996. Truth be told, this judge originally threw the case out.
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