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Wesley J. Smith: Federal funding for human cloning?

By Alliance Alert

Wesley J. Smith writing at National Review Online: "Just when you thought the political fight over federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) was over, United States District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that President Obama?s ESCR policy violates the 'Dickey-Wicker Amendment,' a federal law barring federal funding of 'the creation of a human embryo . . . for research purposes' and 'research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.' In response, a group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would authorize federal funding for human cloning . . . DeGette/Castle/Specter would do more than restore Obama?s ESCR policy. It would also explicitly authorize federal funding of human-cloning research ? which is not permitted under the current NIH plan."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).