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Government Challenges Ban on Stem Cell Research Funding
September 2, 2010
by Angela Haupt
from US News/ Health
Little more than a year after President Obama lifted a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, the administration is fighting to uphold its decision. The Justice Department is challenging a court ruling handed down last week by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that froze federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Lamberth’s temporary injunction has put dozens of medical experiments on hold—including research on fighting spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and other diseases. The department is seeking a stay of the court’s injunction and has filed a notice of plans to take the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals, should Lamberth stick to his ruling. “We’re going to do everything possible to prevent the potentially catastrophic consequences of this injunction,” White House spokesman Reid Cherlin told the Associated Press. The ruling was based on a 1996 amendment that prohibits federal money from being used for scientific research that destroys human embryos. If upheld, it would suspend $54 million that’s sustaining more than 20 scientific projects, all of which were set to receive their next infusion of funds this month. Blocking stem cell research could cause “irrevocable harm to the millions of extremely sick or injured people who stand to benefit,” the department says in court papers.
