Obama Admin Sued Over Embyonic Stem Cell Research
Posted on October 10, 2009
Hey, here’s one you won’t hear about in any of the MSM, unless the lawsuit tanks
A coalition of pro-life advocates including two scientists, two families, an adoption agency and the Christian Medical Association have banded together to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration in an effort to stop the expected taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
The suit is a response to President Barack Obama’s decision earlier this year to overturn the protections the Bush administration put in place preventing funding of research that involves the destruction of human life.
They must believe in God and be EVIL Creationists, or something like that. I’m waiting for Excitable Chucky to chime in, since everyone who believes in God is a Creationist.
World magazine indicates the pro-life advocates have sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on behalf of unborn children who would be destroyed in the research funded by the departments.
They want to stop the expected $92 million that could be funneled from taxpayer funds to embryonic stem cell research, which has never helped human patients and has yielded significant problems in studies with animals.
That is the major issue. Why should the federal government use taxpayer money to fund ESC research? So far, it has been worthless. What point is there in a cure that creates massive tumors in the patient? If the research was so great, private industry would be doing tons of research, instead of concentrating on Adult, Placental, and other lines other than Embryonic. Using federal money is basically a sop to the Abortion on Demand lobby and to researchers who couldn’t get a job in the private sector.
The Alliance Defense Fund and the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are also helping the clients involved in the lawsuits.
There are two suits and both make similar cases that the Obama order to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, a federal law that prohibits federal funding of scientific studies that destroy human life.
Specifically, the 1995 law stops tax-funding of “(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”
Oh, please, you can’t expect Democrats to actually follow The Law, mateys! The Law is for others.
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I’m a little worried that if this research is stopped, then I will have to pay with my life, because a cure for my illness that might have been found will not be found. I don’t know, I just feel like living human beings, from babies through to the elderly, are more valuable than a cluster of cells barely distinguishable from the embryos of pigs or even fish.
No worries, Darren. The advances in Adult, Placental, and other non-embryonic stem cell research is doing wonders. Curing disease, halting disease, creating vaccines and treatments, all without those pesky tumors that accompany ESCs.
There are barely any actual treatments, medicines, cures, etc, from ESCs. The other types have been going gangbusters. Did you know that all the treatments for Alzheimers derive from Adult Stem Cells, and have been used for well over a decade? Same with so many others.