FOXNews.com: Court: gov't can fund embryonic stem cell research

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Court: gov't can fund embryonic stem cell research Aug 24th 2012, 16:15 Published August 24, 2012 Associated Press A U.S. appeals court says the Obama administration's funding of embryonic stem cell research in hopes of curing deadly diseases can continue, despite complaints the work relies on destroyed human embryos. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Washington area upheld a decision throwing out a lawsuit that challenged federal funding for the research. Opponents claimed the National Institutes of Health was violating the 1996 Dickey-Wicker law that prohibits taxpayer financing for work that harms an embryo. But a three-judge appeals court panel unanimously agreed with a lower court judge's dismissal of the case. Chief Judge David B. Sentelle says in the ruling that "Dickey-Wicker permits federal funding of research projects that utilize already-derived" embryonic stem cells because no "human embryo or embryos are destroyed" in such projects.

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