Sentences with phrase «limits on embryonic stem cell research»
How does the government's limits on embryonic stem cell research affect you?
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In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.
President Obama is poised to issue an executive order this week reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem - cell research.
He worries that the ruling could foster an unwelcoming climate that would eventually trickle down to limit funding for basic research on embryonic stem cells.
Tensions have escalated since August 2001, when President George W. Bush limited publicly funded research on embryonic stem cells to already existing lines.
In a 2001 executive order, Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem - cell research to work on lines already in existence.
The legislation would lift Bush's restriction that limits federal research on embryonic stem - cell lines to those created before August 2001.
But even before the cash spigot opens, the government may close it — or even try to limit research on human embryonic stem cells, the more promising and controversial type of stem cell.