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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris on March 13, 2009, 11:37:50 PM
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Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44943)
On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996.
The amendment says, in part: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."
Found in Section 509 of Title V of the omnibus bill (at page 280 of the 465-page document), the federal funding ban not only prohibits the government from providing tax dollars to support research that kills or risks injury to a human embryo, it also mandates that the government use an all-inclusive definition of “human embryo” that encompasses any nascent human life from the moment that life comes into being, even if created in a laboratory through cloning, in vitro fertilization or any other means.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44943
Well. This is interesting :popcorn:
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Here's what I got to say about that.....HUH?
I guess a lot of DUmmies will say it to......if they ever find out.
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John Kerry has nothing on this fool in the flip-flop department.
:lmao:
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I wonder if Obama even knew that was in there when he signed it.
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Partial payback for their pork "stimulus" bill.
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Someone should have slipped in "I, Barack Hussein Obama, officially resign the Office of The Presidency, effective immediately." for laughs :D
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Someone should have slipped in "I, Barack Hussein Obama, officially resign the Office of The Presidency, effective immediately." for laughs :D
Imagine if that happened on April Fool's Day.
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Someone should have slipped in "I, Barack Hussein Obama, officially resign the Office of The Presidency, effective immediately." for laughs :D
Wouldn't that be legally binding?
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I wonder if Obama even knew that was in there when he signed it.
You're not suggesting that he didn't read the bill before he signed it? That would be blasphemous! :-)
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You're not suggesting that he didn't read the bill before he signed it? That would be blasphemous! :-)
It's not like he doesn't have the time to read it, what with him blowing off meeting with world leaders and such.
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You're not suggesting that he didn't read the bill before he signed it? That would be blasphemous! :-)
there are some advantaged to ramrodding bills through.