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NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research

sciencehabit writes "Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down their experiments. NIH's action — probably unprecedented in its history — is a response to a preliminary injunction on 23 August from US District Judge Royce Lamberth. The judge ruled that the Obama policy allowing NIH funding to be used to study hESC lines violates a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to destroy embryos."

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  1. Re:Lets be fair then, by gilesjuk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Indeed, that is exactly the way to do it. If you object to the research, you should not be allowed to have your life saved or illness cured by the technique.

    Much of the objection is due to religion, religious types thinking we shouldn't be messing with stem cells and everything to do with life. But these are the same people who probably don't care about genetically modified crops or cloned cattle.

  2. Re:life starts when you move outta my basement! by BassMan449 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So it's not murder if a parent kills their one-month old? According to you they aren't a person so it can't be murder.

  3. Re:Buy one get one? by stonewallred · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Homosexuals are perversions, embryos are humans, niggers on death row deserve to die, kill all the sand niggers, save the jews, hunt bambi and his tasty mother, kill all the mexicans. Fucking jesus x xist on a stick. How do they keep who to kill and who to let live straight in those little pointed heads?