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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