Judge stops federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

[Bluebear]

Washington (CNN) -- A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress.

The ruling by Judge Royce C. Lamberth was a blow to the Obama administration, which last year issued guidelines to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Lamberth's ruling said all embryonic stem cell research involves destroying embryos, which violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment included in federal spending bills.

"The Dickey-Wicker Amendment unambiguously prohibits the use of federal funds for all research in which a human embryo is destroyed," Lamberth's ruling said. "It is not limited to prohibit federal funding of only the 'piece of research' in which an embryo is destroyed. Thus, if ESC research is research in which an embryo is destroyed, the guidelines, by funding ESC research, violate the Dickey-Wicker Amendment

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/23/stem.cell.funding/?hpt=T2

[Flubadubya]

1. Uugghhh...

[Ian David]

2. Next step: Put one cell aside from each embryo, so it isn't technically "destroyed." n/t

[MiniMe]

3. Jesus Christ on a trailor hitch....

That really seems like it is out of the jurisdiction of the court.

Great Terry Schiavo tie-in. with the pic. :hi:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Probably a straightforward reading

Lamberth blocked a suit by these same whackos last October on the grounds that an embryo is not a human being under law.

And it is hard for me to say that congress didn't intend the ban to be sweeping, if you know what I mean.