Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Federal Judge Halts Obama's End Run Around Congress on Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Here is a PDF file of the decision. It explains the entire stem ell debate thoroughly in as unbiased a manner as I have ever read about the controversial issue. It is worth reading just for that, regardless of where you stand on the issue of embryonic stem cell research.

I do not need to tell you I am against it or why, correct?

The decision that blocks Obama’s funding for embryonic stem cell research does not touch often on the prickly issue. Rather, it is about how Obama unlawfully made an end run around Congress in order to fund his radical agenda. Every year, Congress adds the following stipulation to the budget of Health and Human Services prohibiting:
...research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero."
The president has every right to go to Congress and request the removal of this stipulation, but he cannot just ignore the fact Congress enacted it solely because it does not fit I with his desire to…well, whatever progressives who support destroying embryos, allowing abortion in all forms, and pushing for euthanasia in healthcare reform want. To reshape the human race in some twisted utopian vision, I suppose.