A federal appeals court agreed today with the government's request to temporarily block the enforcement of a ruling that banned tax dollars from being used in life-destroying human embryonic stem-cell research.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the emergency hold on District Judge Royce Lamberth's Aug. 23 order, while awaiting Lamberth's ruling on the original lawsuit.
An Aug. 27 Rasmussen poll revealed that only 33 percent of Americans approved of using tax dollars to fund this controversial research – a marked drop from the 52 percent that supported it when Obama signed his Executive Order on March 9, 2009. The order dramatically expanded federal funding streams and opened the gateway for new embryonic stem-cell lines to be used for research – opening the door for further destruction of human life.
While the poll reflects a slight decrease in the number of voters who believe research on embryos is morally wrong, it does make one thing clear: People do not want to see federal funds go toward this controversial issue.
Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, said while the news is encouraging about government intervention, he wishes more people were educated about embryonic versus adult stem-cell research.
"The hype of embryonic stem cell research," Smith said, "the promise that was so often made that people would be out of their wheelchairs…that Uncle Charlie's Parkinson's will soon be cured – has been busted."
Contact: Catherine Snow
Date Published: September 28, 2010
