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Stem Cell Research Ban Overturned By US Appeals Court

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I for one am glad that stem cell research has been unbanned, there's absolutely no reason for it to be banned. What are your thoughts on this recent development?

Fox News
A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that the Obama administration can use federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a decision that overturns a judge's order last year and hands the White House a major victory.

In a 2-1 decision, the court said that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in a lawsuit to stop it.

The ruling reversed an opinion last August by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who said the research likely violates the law against federal funding of embryo destruction.

The 1996 law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in work that harms an embryo, so private money has been used to cull batches of the cells. Those batches can reproduce in lab dishes indefinitely, and the Obama administration issued rules permitting taxpayer dollars to be used in work on them.

Stem cell research holds the potential to address some of the most difficult areas in the medical field -- from spinal cord injury to diabetes to Parkinson's, which all have resisted traditional treatment.

Read more: Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research - FoxNews.com


Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- A divided federal appeals court has ruled that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in a lawsuit to stop it.

In a 2-1 decision Friday, the panel of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington overturned a judge's order that would have blocked taxpayer funding for stem cell research.

The panel reversed an opinion last August by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who said the research likely violates the law against federal funding of embryo destruction.

The 1996 law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in work that harms an embryo, so private money has been used to cull batches of the cells. Those batches can reproduce in lab dishes indefinitely, and the Obama administration issued rules permitting taxpayer dollars to be used in work on them.

Read more: Stem Cell Research Ban Overturned By U.S. Appeals Court
 
I think Obama is a disgrace for not overturning this ban as soon as he came into office.

I think it's imperative that the Supreme Court be packed with Justices who are pro-science as cases like this become more frequent in the coming years.

This is all really a prelude to the cases about human cloning we will see in the next couple of decades.
 
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As a lifer, I was glad it was banned for TAX DOLLAR research.

And you'll excuse me if I note: bite me.
 
I'm not opposed to medical research. I'm opposed to using tax dollars for research and methods of questionable ethics. Private research can do as it likes, within some reason.

It's my tax dollar, I get a say, you won this battle. Proud o' ya.

So? You wanna rub it in? Talk about how stupid and unscientific I am?
 
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So? You wanna rub it in? Talk about how stupid and unscientific I am?

Stupid? No. Dangerous? Yes.

Trying to put the skids on medical research like you're doing is dangerous. It will do harm to people.

Don't be confused. I didn't win, I lost. We all lost. Since the ban we've lost about a decade of precious research time. If the ban is lifted we can stop losing and start gaining.
 
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I'm not opposed to medical research. I'm opposed to using tax dollars for research and methods of questionable ethics. Private research can do as it likes, within some reason.

It's my tax dollar, I get a say, you won this battle. Proud o' ya.

So? You wanna rub it in? Talk about how stupid and unscientific I am?

Look how fast the victim card comes out...
 
I think Obama is a disgrace for not overturning this ban as soon as he came into office.
Huh?

The ban they're talking about went into effect well after Obama took office, and he doesn't have the authority to overturn it.

If you're talking about overturning the Bush policy - he did that sometime within the first month or two of taking office.
 
Don't be confused. I didn't win, I lost. We all lost. Since the ban we've lost about a decade of precious research time. If the ban is lifted we can stop losing and start gaining.
The ban that has been in effect for "about a decade" is still in effect. The appeals court overruled the district judge's interpretation of the law - it did not declare the law unconstitutional or otherwise void.
 
First, the "Research" wasn't banned...you probably should get your terminology straight....

Second.... where has all of the success come from in the Stem Cell realm?
 
From cord cells.
 
Actually there has been some significant progress.

By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.

"This is the first successful reprogramming of blood cells obtained from a patient with leukemia," says University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Igor Slukvin, who directed a study aimed at generating all-purpose stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood. "We were able to turn the diseased cells back into pluripotent stem cells. This is important because it provides a new model for the study of cancer cells."

New induced stem cells may unmask cancer at earliest stage
 
The ban that has been in effect for "about a decade" is still in effect. The appeals court overruled the district judge's interpretation of the law - it did not declare the law unconstitutional or otherwise void.

Your correction is unnecessary as I never made the mistake you imply. Notice how I said "if the ban is lifted." I am well aware it is still in place at the present time. But thank you for making the attempt at correcting me, unnecessary as it was.
 
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