Sentences with phrase «prohibits federal funding for research»
Wicker, then a congressman, was one of the two coauthors, in 1995, of the Dickey - Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal funding for research in which human embryos are destroyed, and which sits at the heart of the current legal dispute.
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Second, is their argument — that hESC research violates the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for research that destroys or harms embryos — reasonable?
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They argued that NIH's July guidelines implementing an order from President Barack Obama to lift limits on hESC research violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a law that prohibits federal funding for «research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.»
Currently, federal law allows the NIH to fund research on aborted fetal tissue but prohibits grants for any investigation that harms a human embryo.