U.S. Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Halted
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U.S. funding of embryonic stem cell research approved by President Barack Obama was halted by a federal judge who ruled that the work violates a law passed to bar the destruction of human embryos.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington today issued an order temporarily stopping the U.S. Health & Human Services Department and the National Institutes for Health from conducting the studies. The judge cited the still-in-force 1996 Dickey-Wicker Amendment.