Court Rules Against Stem Cell Policy

An anonymous reader sends this quote from Reuters: "A US district court issued a preliminary injunction 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 involves the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth granted the injunction after finding that 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."

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Re:Federal funds used to destroy embryos...

[Jherico]

Some would say because its a fine line from there to 'buying child porn isn't illegal because the act itself can't be undone'.

Others would say because having federal funds used to do a thing becomes in and of itself a political statement. i.e. its one thing to destroy cells, but another thing to be paid by the government to do it.

Personally I think the whole issue is retarded. I don't care that they're human embryos, they're never going to be people.