UPDATE: Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research
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.
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Source: CNSNews.com
Note: This is an interesting turn of events. Did President Obama actually read the bill? Did he know about the Dickey-Wicker amendment? If he did, then was all the fanfare surrounding the signing of his Executive Order just a ruse to placate the far left? Watch for news of legislative efforts to repeal the Dickey-Wicker amendment. In the meantime, however, cooler heads have prevailed.
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.
Read More...
Source: CNSNews.com
Note: This is an interesting turn of events. Did President Obama actually read the bill? Did he know about the Dickey-Wicker amendment? If he did, then was all the fanfare surrounding the signing of his Executive Order just a ruse to placate the far left? Watch for news of legislative efforts to repeal the Dickey-Wicker amendment. In the meantime, however, cooler heads have prevailed.
posted by Kathy at 3/15/2009 10:39:00 AM
2 Comments:
I must say this comes as a pretty pleasant surprise to me. It seems like he accidentally did the right thing and protected life haha!
Although I find that tough to believe since you would think that he, as president, would have more sophisticated people to read that stuff and know what he's getting into, I find the idea that he consciously did it tough to digest as well. I mean, he's made no secret of how much of a pro-abortion zealot he is. You could argue he did it for some kind of political reason - but what reason would that be?!
I think signing the executive order was his way of placating the far left. Notice that the provision in the omnibus bill got zero coverage in the major media. I don't think Jon Stewart even mentioned it. So who's going to know?
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