Capitalism Forever Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01503 Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 The religious left... I wonder if this will be on the mainstream media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thales Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 From CNS News: 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. Round and round it goes, where it stops no one knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadmonson Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 (edited) Isn't this good though? The government shouldn't be funding this. Edited March 15, 2009 by dadmonson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyotr Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 He voted for it before he voted against it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_Ellison Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Imagine the media circus if Bush had done this. Dickey-Wicker Okay, there is a juvenile joke lurking in this word combination. Beavis and Butthead come to mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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