Federal suit challenges stem cell funding guidelines
Monday, August 31, 2009By Tom Strode
Aug 28, 2009
The Obama administration’s guidelines for federal funding of stem cell research that results in the destruction of human embryos have been challenged in court, and a lawyer behind the suit says he thinks its “chances are very good.”
The National Institutes of Health’s decision to fund embryonic stem cell research is “unethical, scientifically unnecessary, fiscally irresponsible and counterproductive,” opponents said in their complaint filed Aug. 19 in District of Columbia federal court.
Their suit contends the guidelines violate a 13-year-old congressional ban on funds for research that destroys embryos. It also… Read Full Article
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