What is Obama doing? » stem cells http://www.whatisobamadoing.com Keeping Track of Barack Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:13:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Day 46: New stance on stem cell research http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/03/06/day-46-new-stance-on-stem-cell-limits/ http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/03/06/day-46-new-stance-on-stem-cell-limits/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:05:56 +0000 Niklas http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/?p=346 President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research as part of a pledge to separate science and politics, White House officials said Friday.

Story on NYTimes

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]]> http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/03/06/day-46-new-stance-on-stem-cell-limits/feed/ 0 Day 25: Obama to allow Federal funding of stem cell reseach http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/02/15/obama-to-allow-the-feds-to-fund-stem-cell-reseach/ http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/2009/02/15/obama-to-allow-the-feds-to-fund-stem-cell-reseach/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:48:21 +0000 Paul -V- http://www.whatisobamadoing.com/?p=206 The scientific community is all atwitter this weekend as news spread that Obama is getting ready to lift the prohibition on the Federal government from funding stem cell research.

Expect conservative fundamentalists to roll out the old “snowflake baby” argument by this time next week.

U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, a senior adviser said on Sunday.

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In 2001, Bush limited federal funding for stem cell research only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed. It was a gesture to his conservative Christian supporters who regard embryonic stem cell research as destroying potential life, because the cells must be extracted from human embryos.

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