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发帖数: 28562 | 1 美国联邦巡回上诉法庭昨天拒绝一些组织要求停止干细胞研究资金的诉求。
美国政府在布什时代对胚胎干细胞的研究限制甚严，不允许联邦资金用于
新的胚胎干细胞的研究。奥巴马上台后放松了此限制。有些组织认为这个
会导致摧毁胚胎的事情发生（也就是堕胎），所以对此进行了诉讼。
此诉求被下层法院驳回之后，上诉后又被上诉庭驳回。但是初步估计对此的
法律纠纷绝不会就此而止。
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/appeals-court-panel-says
Appeals court panel says federally funded embryonic stem cell research can
continue
By Associated Press, Published: August 24
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday refused to order the Obama
administration to stop funding embryonic stem cell research, despite
complaints the work relies on destroyed human embryos.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a
lower court decision throwing out a lawsuit that challenged federal funding
for the research, which is used in pursuit of cures to deadly diseases.
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. This is the second time the appeals court
has said that the challenged federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
was permissible.
“Dickey-Wicker permits federal funding of research projects that utilize
already-derived ESCs — which are not themselves embryos — because no ‘
human embryo or embryos are destroyed’ in such projects,” Chief Judge
David B. Sentelle said in the ruling, adding that the plaintiffs made the
same argument the last the time the court reviewed the issue. “Therefore,
unless they have established some ‘extraordinary circumstance,’ the law of
the case is established and we will not revisit the issue.”
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said in
a statement after the decision, “NIH will continue to move forward,
conducting and funding research in this very promising area of science. The
ruling affirms our commitment to the patients afflicted by diseases that may
one day be treatable using the results of this research.”
Researchers hope one day to use stem cells in ways that cure spinal cord
injuries, Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. Opponents of the research
object because the cells were obtained from destroyed human embryos. Though
current research is using cells culled long ago, opponents say they also
fear research success would spur new embryo destruction. Proponents say the
research cells come mostly from extra embryos that fertility clinics would
have discarded anyway.
The lawsuit was filed in 2009 by two scientists who argued that Obama’s
expansion jeopardized their ability to win government funding for research
using adult stem cells — ones that have already matured to create specific
types of tissues — because it will mean extra competition.
President George W. Bush also permitted stem cell research, but limited the
availability of taxpayer funds to embryonic stem cell lines that were
already in existence and “where the life and death decision has already
been made.” Obama’s order removed that limitation, allowing projects that
involve stem cells from already destroyed embryos or embryos to be destroyed
in the future. To qualify, parents who donate the original embryo must be
told of other options, such as donating to another infertile woman.
Sentelle also rejected the opponent’s two other arguments: that the same
federal law prohibits funding for projects where embryos are “knowingly
subjected to risk of injury or death,” and that NIH issued guidelines on
the funding without responding to complaints about the research.
“Because the executive order’s entire thrust was aimed at expanding
support of stem-cell research, it was not arbitrary or capricious for NIH to
disregard comments that instead called for termination of all ESC research,
” including research the White House has permitted since 2001,” said
Sentelle, who wrote the majority opinion for Judges Karen Henderson and
Janice Rogers Brown.
Sentelle was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Henderson by President
George H.W. Bush and Brown by President George W. Bush.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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发帖数: 6456 | 2 Bush就是史上最傻逼的总统。
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【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 美国联邦巡回上诉法庭昨天拒绝一些组织要求停止干细胞研究资金的诉求。
: 美国政府在布什时代对胚胎干细胞的研究限制甚严，不允许联邦资金用于
: 新的胚胎干细胞的研究。奥巴马上台后放松了此限制。有些组织认为这个
: 会导致摧毁胚胎的事情发生（也就是堕胎），所以对此进行了诉讼。
: 此诉求被下层法院驳回之后，上诉后又被上诉庭驳回。但是初步估计对此的
: 法律纠纷绝不会就此而止。
: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/appeals-court-panel-says
: Appeals court panel says federally funded embryonic stem cell research can
: continue
: By Associated Press, Published: August 24
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发帖数: 17995 | 3 这些操心捣毁才几十上百个细胞的胚胎的人怎么不去关心一下非洲那些饿死病死的饥民 | D*a
发帖数: 6830 | 4 美国受精卵更高贵一些
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: 这些操心捣毁才几十上百个细胞的胚胎的人怎么不去关心一下非洲那些饿死病死的饥民
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发帖数: 407 | 5 资本家会关心不挣钱的地方么
【在 b****r 的大作中提到】
: 这些操心捣毁才几十上百个细胞的胚胎的人怎么不去关心一下非洲那些饿死病死的饥民
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