Embryo-Adoption Agency Sues Federal Government

Embryo-Adoption Agency Sues Federal Government Nightlight Christian Adoptions, which specializes in frozen-embryo adoption, and the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA) are seeking to overturn controversial guidelines that may result in taxpayer-funded destruction of human embryos.   The Dickey-Wicker Amendment, passed by Congress in 1995, prohibits the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from making taxpayer money available for the creation or destruction of human embryos.   However, under direction from the Obama administration, the NIH has approved of taxpayer money going to everything but "harvesting," or the killing of the embryo.    Dr. Gene Rudd, senior vice president for the CMA, said he wants to hold the government accountable for breaking its own law.   "Certainly they are fostering an industry that Congress intended to prohibit," he said, "by using semantics to try to get around what they are actually doing, which is promoting the destruction of human embryos." Contact: Josh Montez Source: CitizenLink Publish Date: August 20, 2009 Link to this article.   Send this article to a friend.