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Stemcell Research to be Backed Up by Obama's Appeal

by Rathi Manohar on August 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM Medico Legal News

Stemcell research will be a controversial issue in the election year as the US Justice Department takes the risk of appealing against a judicial decision to block federal funding.

Stemcell Research to be Backed Up by Obama's Appeal

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"I can confirm we plan to appeal," said Tracy Schmaller, a Justice Department spokesperson, adding that the department was "likely to file this week."

She said the department would both appeal US District Judge Royce Lambert's temporary suspension of federal funding for stemcell research and seek a stay of the suspension while the appeal is pending.

"The president said very plainly that this is important, life-saving research," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters earlier. "We're reviewing all possibilities."

"We're reviewing it so we can keep this important, potentially life-saving research moving forward in the most ethical way possible," he said.

President Barack Obama authorized the renewal of federal funding in March 2009, reversing a ban imposed by his predecessor George W. Bush in 2001 on moral and religious grounds.

In lifting the ban, Obama rejected what he said was a "false choice" between sound science and moral values.

But in his ruling Monday, Lambert sided with a group that includes several Christian organizations who argued that federal funding would go for research that involved destroying human embryos, which it argued violated a 1996 law.

Scientists, who had lauded the easing of Bush-era restrictions, saw the latest turn as a dismaying setback for research that is believed to hold great potential for treatment of diseases like diabetes, Alzheimers and Parkinson's.

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