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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
No he didn't. What he did was say that his administration would not support with public moneys scientist and projects which destroy embryos. You can't pull funding which didn't exist in the first place.
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There wasn't active funding, but labs which have ANY federal funding now, cannot proceed in this research.
He's limiting the number of places that can research stem cells.
No lab with ANY percentage of their funding from federal sources can really do any stem cell research. Since the vast majority of academic (non-industry) research is funded by the NIH, a federal institution, this rules out the vast majority of research labs in the country.
He may not be taking away literal dollars, but he's taking away the number of laboratories and research facilities that are able to do any stem cell research.
He's restricting the advancement of an incredibly important research field that can help billions.