In case you haven't heard already, the injunction has been permanently
lifted, and the National Institutes of Health are back to creating and
destroying embryos again, in the name of science, of course. It may be
scientific, but it certainly isn't godly!


Ruling allows stem cell research to continue during appeal

CNN News

September 28, 2010


(CNN) -- An appeals court has permanently lifted an injunction imposed by a
federal judge, thereby allowing federally funded embryonic stem-cell
research to continue while the Obama administration appeals the judge's
original ruling against use of public funds in such research.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed
Tuesday to permanently lift the injunction and allow the National Institutes
of Health to continue research. The court had temporarily lifted that
injunction September 9 pending further consideration.

"President Obama made expansion of stem cell research and the pursuit of
groundbreaking treatments and cures a top priority when he took office,"
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. "We're heartened
that the court will allow NIH and their grantees to continue moving forward
while the appeal is resolved."

District Court Judge Royce Lamberth earlier this month said he would not
agree to delay his injunction while the case was appealed.

"Defendants [the government] are incorrect about much of their 'parade of
horribles' that will supposedly result from this Court's preliminary
injunction," Lamberth wrote in his court order in early September.

The "horribles" he referred to are an extensive list of research projects
outlined by the National Institutes of Health that would have to be shelved
if a stay were not granted.

"Congress has mandated that the public interest is served by preventing
taxpayer funding of research that entails the destruction of human embryos,"
Lamberth said.

"In this court's view a stay would flout the will of Congress as this court
understands what Congress has enacted. ... Congress remains perfectly free
to amend or revise the statute. This Court is not free to do so," Lamberth
said.

Lamberth's ruling, which stunned the administration, stopped any further
medical research that involves the use of taxpayer dollars to fund projects
requiring the destruction of embryos. The appeals court ruling Tuesday
allows research to continue during the U.S. Justice Department appeal.

The litigation resulted from a lawsuit against the National Health Institute
filed by researchers opposed to use of embryonic stem cells, a group that
seeks adoptive parents for human embryos created through in vitro
fertilization, the nonprofit Christian Medical Association and others.

When the injunction was first issued by Lamberth in August, Ron Stoddart,
executive director of Nightlight Christian Adoptions -- one of the groups
that filed the lawsuit -- said he supported adult stem-cell research that
doesn't require destroying embryos.

"Frequently people will say why are you opposed to stem-cell research and of
course our answer is, 'We're not,' " Stoddart said. "We're opposed to the
destruction of the embryos to get embryo stem cells."



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