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Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research

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From CNS News:

On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."

The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996.

Gotta love it when politicians pass so many laws that even they cannot navigate their way through the rules they imposed on themselves...

P.S. Supposing that it's only that and he isn't deliberately playing A is non-A.

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Isn't this good though? The government shouldn't be funding this.

The government is funding almost everything. As a result, no one is doing important research involving embryonic stem cells, because that would prevent them from receiving government money, and put them at a disadvantage with other, subsidized facilities.

So this unreasonable law has been, and apparently still will be, potentially costing us important cures, which would likely be discovered without it. You decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

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Isn't this good though? The government shouldn't be funding this.
The correct conclusion is that government shouldn't be funding. And yet the government is funding. So given that the government is funding, why should those funds not be used for this? That's the problem with government funding -- you have to abandon moral principles.
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