That didnt take long....

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Originally Posted by Honu

There was government funding and support for stem cell research , is the point you are trying to make about embreyo research and that the feds didnt fund it before . Im sure being as well read as you are scientists are finding that using cord blood and other tissues are proving to be more usefull than embreyo's. Just saying.

Bush restricted federal funding to 40 existing cell lines, telling scientists they couldn't use anything else. A political decision based strictly upon one man's certain religious view. And that view was based upon false information (involving abortion, tissue obtainment, etc)

The importance of Obama immediately lifting those restrictions results in the ability of science to use more than those basic cell lines.

Politicians have no business whatsoever inserting their personal religious views into our national and international scientific work.