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Originally Posted by peter12
Good news. This stuff creeps the heck out of me, regardless of the so-called possible treatments that could emerge. No human harvesting please.
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You've been watching too many science fiction movies.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth declared that research on human embryonic stem cells violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, a 1996 law that prohibits federal dollars from being used to support any studies "in which human embryos are created, destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death." In order to obtain stem cells, the four-to-five-day-old embryos from which they emerge are sacrificed.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2013042,00.html#ixzz0xeG23kKT
I guess throwing out excess embryos is more acceptable than actually using them to try and discover new ways to fight disease. It's a dumb amendment.