White House Wants to Move Forward with Stem Cell Research

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Source: CBS News

In the wake of a federal judge's decision Monday to halt federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the White House said today that President Obama stands by his policy for funding the research and wants to find a way to keep it moving forward.

"We're exploring all possible avenues to make sure that we can continue to do this critical, lifesaving research," White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters today.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday ruled that the administration's policy of funding embryonic stem cell research violates a federal law that prohibits the destruction of human embryos. Embryonic stem cells have the potential to become any cell in the body and treat some of the toughest diseases, from diabetes to Parkinson's, but the embryo is necessarily broken up in the process.

"The unambiguous intent of Congress is to prohibit the expenditure of federal funds on 'research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed,'" the judge wrote in his decision, the Associated Press reported.

The judge's decision potentially freezes more than $200 million worth of stem cell research, CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. It does not, however, apply to research on adult stem cells or privately funded embryonic stem cell research.

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Burton added that the White House believes the judge's decision would also stop the research that Mr. Bush had allowed to go forward early in his presidency.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014579-503544.html

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1. time to have Nancy Reagan back to the White House to announce the changes & call it Ronny's Law

play those GOP hypocrites at their own game

[Dawgs]

2. Impossible! Obama is the same as Bush and the Republicans.

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

3. An issue I've been passionately involved with for almost 2 decades now. Big, big, big kudos to our

President and k/r