The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion late last week in Sherley v. Sebelius allowing the Obama administration to continue funding destructive embryo research. At issue was President Obama’s March 9, 2009 executive order directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to issue new stem cell guidelines to […]
Embryo research yields no results—or money
USA Today is reporting today that Geron—the company that received the first government approval for human clinical trials using human embryo stem cells—is discontinuing “further stem cell work.” This decision hardly comes as a surprise. There simply is no money in research that yields no results. Geron says that the decision came “after a strategic […]
Embryo-Destructive Research Costing Taxpayers Millions and Destroying Human Life
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dr. Charmaine Yoest, AUL President & CEO, called the decision by the Department of Justice to appeal an injunction of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research “not surprising, but not the biggest story here.” “Adult stem cell research has yielded incredible, life-giving results for people with many diseases and disabilities, while the stem […]
Court Strikes Down Obama Administration Embryonic Stem Cell Policy
Washington, D.C.—A U.S. District Court today halted the Obama Administration’s illegal and unethical policy of funding research that necessarily entails the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction against the Administration’s policy in the case Sherley v. Sebelius. “Since 1996, Congress has been clear that no federal funds are to be […]
Court Finds Obama Administration Stem Cell Policy Illegal
AUL’s news release on this decision can be found here. Today, a U.S. District Court halted the Obama Administration’s illegal and unethical policy of funding research that necessarily entails the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction against the Administration’s policy in the case Sherley v. Sebelius. On March 9 2009, […]
Western Australia Legislature Backing Adult Stem Cells
Science Alert Australia & New Zealand reports that Western Australia’s Upper House has rejected human embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. Dr. Millet, director of Curtin University of Technology’s Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy explains why. “The whole debate has changed, and it’s changed dramatically since the Yamanaka discovery because, while both his […]
