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talkpolitics(CNSNews.com) - On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996.
The amendment says, in part: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
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...Wait, what? Not that I'm complaining, but seriously, what the hell?
What do you guys make of this? In b4 the pro-life agenda forced this or any variations thereof.
The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996.
The amendment says, in part: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
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...Wait, what? Not that I'm complaining, but seriously, what the hell?
What do you guys make of this? In b4 the pro-life agenda forced this or any variations thereof.
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Date: 14/3/09 00:23 (UTC)I just thought it was weird and worth discussing.
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Date: 14/3/09 00:21 (UTC)Maybe Congressional Democrats had to include this provision in the spending bill to keep certain conservative Democrats on board?
At any event, once it was baked into the bill, O's only options were to either sign or veto the whole thing.
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Date: 14/3/09 01:41 (UTC)The funding bill from last year that just got put through bars any money going to embryonic stem cell research. But this is the last funding bill for the previous year's budget -- which wouldn't have had any money for that purpose anyway.
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Date: 14/3/09 05:10 (UTC)I don't buy it.
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Date: 14/3/09 10:19 (UTC)The article trips itself up -- the "ban" would actually be a "bar" on money in that spending bill. But the bill is the last one to fund the PREVIOUS budget -- which wouldn't have any stem cell funding anyway.
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Date: 14/3/09 15:34 (UTC)I think we're all bozos on this omnibus
Date: 14/3/09 23:47 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/3/09 02:59 (UTC)Obama, what the f*** ...?
Either this is an early April Fools' joke, or he's just raising righties' hopes up, only to flip-flop again.