US Appeals Court Overturns Ban On Stem-Cell Funding

WSJ.com ^ | 04/29/2011 | Brent Kendall

[Hawk720]

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the federal government can continue to fund research involving human embryonic stem cells, a significant legal victory for the Obama administration.

The divided ruling, by the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, overturned a trial judge's surprise ruling in 2010 that barred funding for the research.

[Kevin in California]

And the judicial activism continues!

When will it ever end?

[muawiyah]

One Nazi camp guard to another: "En zo, why do we continue to operate the oven factories? Isn't the war nearly over and we have lost?"

The second guard defended himself by noting that "investments in project planning would be a loss, the expenditures for equipment a waste, and the staffs out of a job."

And then the Leftwingtards wonder why we keep talking to them like they're a bunch of SS. Could be that they are.

[al_c]

Oh, good ... let’s throw taxpayer dollars at a useless wild goose chase that has yielded no useable cure to date. /s

[madprof98]

Let’s see now: We are not just out of money; we are heavily in debt. But we can borrow still more money to fund research explicitly prohibited by law because if we don’t borrow the money, somebody might lose their job. No.

[don-o]

Men in Black - and on it goes.

Are we to “alter or abolish it” yet?

[SamuraiScot]

in an opinion by Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg

That decision is so stupid, you'd think the judge must have been high or something. Then again, since it was pot-smokin' Doug Ginsburg, rejected for the Supremes because of his herbal habit (remember?), maybe he was.

[Deo volente]

One more obstacle to the progress of the Culture of Death is removed by judicial fiat. This is surely a “fun day” for pro-aborts everywhere, including the one in the White House.

[livius]

Ah, yes, I knew that name rang a bell.

I don’t want my money going for this. At some point, they are going to push us too far. Paying for (fetal) stem-cell funding is getting pretty close.

Fetal stem-cell cures have never worked. Adult stem-cells, on the other hand, taken from your own fat or other tissue, do work.

So guess which one the Federal Government is supporting? That’s right, the one that kills babies and has had no success.

The problem is that they want to support it with my tax dollars.

[ColdOne]

And the judicial activism continues! When will it ever end? Really? When will it?

[Waco]

There’s no need to fund stem cell research,,, however come May the fed/guv may not be adle to recuit high school grads for the military and may not be able to ensure they’ll be paid anyway. So boy oh boy spend that moola and create jobs???

[VanDeKoik]

How on Earth can a court tell the U.S. government what they can and cant spend money on??

[EDINVA]

yeah, and remember who nominated him ?

[PapaBear3625]

The Obama administration wants to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the law passed by congress says otherwise. National Review Online explains it:

For those who are interested, here’s the nub of the issue. Dickey-Wicker prevents federal funding for science that either creates embryos for, or destroys them in, research. That would seem to preclude ESCR, since obtaining the stem cells requires destruction of the embryo. President Clinton found a very Clintonesque way around the problem, signing an executive order requiring the actual destruction of the embryos to be paid for with private money, and then permitting federally funded research on the resulting stem-cell lines. That policy was changed by President Bush, who believed it was more consistent with the spirit of Dickey-Wicker to only permit federal funding of research on stem-cell lines in existence as of 8/9/01. That way, no embryos would be destroyed in anticipation of receiving funding for the resulting cell products. President Obama basically returned to the Clinton approach.

[plain talk]

Can someone explain what this is all about? I saw this sentence

“The appeals court, in a 21-page decision, said the National Institutes of Health reasonably concluded that government funding for embryonic stem-cell research is not prohibited by a 1996 law ...”

So is this just a matter of a bunch of liberal lawyers cleverly finding a way around the language of the 1996 law and does this 1996 law just need some tightening up? Or is this just a bogus ruling that will get overturned by the SC? I can’t follow this crap.

[eleni121]

Twisted sickos.

[keat]

Not quite in time to save Christopher Reed.

[conservaterian]

It’s the DC appeals court, can you expect any different?

[goodnesswins]

Hmmm....no wonder this administration fights so hard for Planned Parenthood.....is PP selling embryonic cells?

[Moonman62]

This should no longer be an issue. Adult stem cell research is far more productive, and stem cells can be taken from an embryo without harming it in the rare cases that they need them.