Courts deem pro-life groups lack standing
Pro-life groups will continue to fight against implementation of federal funding of human embryo research.
The Christian Medical Association is one of several groups that filed suit to stop the destruction of tiny human beings, even for scientific purposes. Despite the number of plaintiffs, the court found that each of them lacked standing. The stored embryos are categorized with the plaintiffs because, under the law, "embryos are not 'persons.'"
Gene Rudd (Christian Medical Association)Spokesman for the CMA, Dr. Gene Rudd, tells OneNewsNow a federal court threw out the lawsuit. He says, "The court used a legal concept of standing to say to us, 'You know you really shouldn't be concerned about this. You have no reason bringing this to court, so buzz off.'"
Rudd says that was the basic message, but argues that the medical community does have standing when science wants to take the most basic of human life and destroy it.
"It's not only a moral and ethical problem," he explains, "it's also a legal problem because we have a law in the land that says that federal money will not be used in any way to bring the destruction of embryos, but yet this policy directly contradicts that."
The mentioned policy is called the Hyde Amendment.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: November 8, 2009
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Pro-life groups will continue to fight against implementation of federal funding of human embryo research.
The Christian Medical Association is one of several groups that filed suit to stop the destruction of tiny human beings, even for scientific purposes. Despite the number of plaintiffs, the court found that each of them lacked standing. The stored embryos are categorized with the plaintiffs because, under the law, "embryos are not 'persons.'"
Gene Rudd (Christian Medical Association)Spokesman for the CMA, Dr. Gene Rudd, tells OneNewsNow a federal court threw out the lawsuit. He says, "The court used a legal concept of standing to say to us, 'You know you really shouldn't be concerned about this. You have no reason bringing this to court, so buzz off.'"
Rudd says that was the basic message, but argues that the medical community does have standing when science wants to take the most basic of human life and destroy it.
"It's not only a moral and ethical problem," he explains, "it's also a legal problem because we have a law in the land that says that federal money will not be used in any way to bring the destruction of embryos, but yet this policy directly contradicts that."
The mentioned policy is called the Hyde Amendment.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: November 8, 2009
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