breaking...federal judge has blocked federal funding of stem cell research

[spanone]

m$nbc

judge says congress has blocked it.....no link yet

[Beetwasher]

1. What The Fuck?

[spanone]

2. amen bro, what the fuck

[KingFlorez]

3. I'm sure we'll hear cries about activist judges from right-wingers

[cal04]

4. Obama stem cell regulations temporarily blocked (link)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100823/ap_on_sc/us_judge_stem_cell_1

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Obama administration regulations expanding stem cell research.

A nonprofit group, Nightlight Christian Adoptions, contends that the government's new guidelines will decrease the number of human embryos available for adoption.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the plaintiffs are entitled to bring their lawsuit in the courts.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38820323/ns/health-cloning_and_stem_cells




Royce C. Lamberth
nominated to the federal bench on March 19, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 13, 1987. He also served as Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 1995 to 2002.

[spanone]

6. thanks for link!

[uncommon]

5. ???

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. He rejected this on standing last October (link)

I guess they cleaned up their suit to comport with that earlier denail:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/judge-throws-ou.html

[spanone]

8. more...

Washington (CNN) -- A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress.

The ruling by Judge Royce C. Lamberth was a blow to the Obama administration, which last year issued guidelines to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Lamberth's ruling said all embryonic stem cell research involves destroying embryos, which violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment included in federal spending bills.

"The Dickey-Wicker Amendment unambiguously prohibits the use of federal funds for all research in which a human embryo is destroyed," said the ruling by Lamberth, who was nominated to the federal bench by then-President

Ronald Reagan in 1987. "It is not limited to prohibit federal funding of only the 'piece of research' in which an embryo is destroyed. Thus, if ESC research is research in which an embryo is destroyed, the
guidelines, by funding ESC research, violate the Dickey-Wicker Amendment."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/23/stem.cell.funding/?hpt=Sbin