Wonders never cease. The New York Times acknowledges President Bush's "careful compromise" in finding a way to allow federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research:
For a time, the ban stood in the way of taxpayer-financed embryonic stem cell research, because embryos are destroyed when stem cells are extracted from them. But in August 2001, in a careful compromise, President Bush opened the door a tiny crack, by ordering that tax dollars could be used for studies on a small number of lines, or colonies, of stem cells already extracted from embryos — so long as federal researchers did not do the extraction themselves.
Once again we find President Obama trying to be on both sides of a very divisive issue. On Friday, reports indicated Obama would be lifting the Dickey-Wicker prohibition on using federal funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes or for research in which human embryos are destroyed.
According to the Times, Obama intends to sign an executive order that "will allow research on hundreds of stem cell lines already in existence, as well as ones yet to be created." Melody C. Barnes, Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, says the president believes stem cell research "should be done in compliance with federal law."
How will Obama's executive order allow human embryonic stem cell research "in compliance with federal law?" Only Congress can overturn the Dickey-Wicker prohibition.
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If we can take the moral equation out of the stem cell argument, we still must deal with the legal aspects of this.
Since science can now produce an individual Human Embryo, and keep in living outside of a human host, the question is, “are these Human Embryo’s "born"?
Relative is science’s ability to nurture the Human Embryo. But according to the law these Human Embryos are indeed "born" and living outside of an individual host (a mother). They may need aids to sustain life, much like an individual on life support, but never the less, science is sustaining a life outside of a human host, thus, giving the Human Embryos Constitution Rights.
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