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U.S. court rules against Obama's stem cell policy

(Reuters) - A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.

The court ruled in favor of a suit filed in June by researchers who said human embryonic stem cell research involved the destruction of human embryos.

Judge Royce Lamberth granted the injunction after finding the lawsuit would likely succeed because the guidelines violated law banning the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos.

"(Embryonic stem cell) research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed," Lamberth wrote in a 15-page ruling. The Obama administration could appeal his decision or try to rewrite the guidelines to comply with U.S. law.

The suit against the National Institutes of Health, backed by some Christian groups opposed to embryo research, argued the NIH policy violated U.S. law and took funds from researchers seeking to work with adult stem cells.

The U.S. Department of Justice, White House and NIH had no immediate comment.

Key to the case is the so-called Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which Congress adds to budget legislation every year. It bans the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos.

That was not an issue for the NIH until the discovery of human embryonic stem cells in 1998. In 2001, then-President George W. Bush said he could only allow federal research money to pay for work done using a few batches, or lines, of the cells.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67M4HA20100823?type=politicsNews
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Can adult stem cells do everything embryonic stem cells do, but without controversy?

Unlikely.


Actually from all I've heard on this topic, the ONLY success has been from adult stem cells.  There never has been any success with embryonic stem cells.


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Most embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in an in vitro fertilization clinic - Isnt it  wonderful  when infertility can be circumvented through in vitro fertilization. In these cases, the idea of “God’s will” is tossed out the window.  No one seems to care much if left-over embryos are thrown away. ( no funeral either )


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Most embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in an in vitro fertilization clinic - Isnt it  wonderful  when infertility can be circumvented through in vitro fertilization. In these cases, the idea of “God’s will” is tossed out the window.  No one seems to care much if left-over embryos are thrown away. ( no funeral either )


Who are the experts that can speak of "God's will"??????


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