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US court stops Obama government's funding of embryonic stem cell research | A US district court has issued a temporary injunction against expanded federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, which was part of a new policy outlined by the Obama administration last year. The court ruled in favour
of the researchers who claimed that human embryonic stem cell research involved
the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth said that lawsuits brought
against the new guidelines could now go ahead. "To conduct ESC (embryonic stem
cell) research, ESCs must be derived from an embryo. The process of deriving ESCs
from an embryo results in the destruction of the embryo. Thus ESC research necessarily
depends upon the destruction of a human embryo," the BBC quoted Judge Lamberth,
as saying. Justice Lamberth, however, added that an injunction would not "seriously
harm" embryonic studies because it does "not interfere with a researcher's ability
to obtain private funding for research. Researchers affiliated to several Christian
groups filed the case, saying that human embryonic stem cell research involves
the destruction of human embryos, and that the new NIH guidelines for human stem
cell research were 'contrary to law'. Last March, President Barack Obama reversed
an eight-year government block on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell
research, signing an executive order that overturned former president George W.
Bush's policy limiting research on then-existing cells, which was put in place
during his first year in office in 2001. |
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