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| 9/1/2010 |
Obama Administration Files Appeal To Stem Cell Ruling
(Washington, DC) -- The Obama administration is pushing back against a federal judge's decision to block human embryonic stem cell research. The U.S. Justice Department asked Judge Royce Lamberth on Tuesday to lift his injunction on embryonic stem cell research. The administration also filed an appeal to Lamberth's ruling that said stem cell research funding from the National Institutes of Health violated a 1996 federal law that bans federal funds from being used to destroy human embryos. Lamberth issued the ruling last week in response to a lawsuit filed by scientists who said President Obama's decision to broaden funding for embryonic stem cell research would take funding away from their own research projects, which don't involve embryos. In it's appeal, the Justice Department said Judge Lamberth's ruling was overly broad and argued the damage it would do to ongoing stem cell research outweighs the "remote economic self-interests" of the scientists who filed the original lawsuit. The Justice Department has asked Lamberth to rule on the request to lift the injunction by September 7th. |
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