In case you haven't heard already, the injunction has been permanently   
   lifted, and the National Institutes of Health are back to creating and   
   destroying embryos again, in the name of science, of course. It may be   
   scientific, but it certainly isn't godly!   
      
      
   Ruling allows stem cell research to continue during appeal   
      
   CNN News   
      
   September 28, 2010   
      
      
   (CNN) -- An appeals court has permanently lifted an injunction imposed by a   
   federal judge, thereby allowing federally funded embryonic stem-cell   
   research to continue while the Obama administration appeals the judge's   
   original ruling against use of public funds in such research.   
      
   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed   
   Tuesday to permanently lift the injunction and allow the National Institutes   
   of Health to continue research. The court had temporarily lifted that   
   injunction September 9 pending further consideration.   
      
   "President Obama made expansion of stem cell research and the pursuit of   
   groundbreaking treatments and cures a top priority when he took office,"   
   White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement. "We're heartened   
   that the court will allow NIH and their grantees to continue moving forward   
   while the appeal is resolved."   
      
   District Court Judge Royce Lamberth earlier this month said he would not   
   agree to delay his injunction while the case was appealed.   
      
   "Defendants [the government] are incorrect about much of their 'parade of   
   horribles' that will supposedly result from this Court's preliminary   
   injunction," Lamberth wrote in his court order in early September.   
      
   The "horribles" he referred to are an extensive list of research projects   
   outlined by the National Institutes of Health that would have to be shelved   
   if a stay were not granted.   
      
   "Congress has mandated that the public interest is served by preventing   
   taxpayer funding of research that entails the destruction of human embryos,"   
   Lamberth said.   
      
   "In this court's view a stay would flout the will of Congress as this court   
   understands what Congress has enacted. ... Congress remains perfectly free   
   to amend or revise the statute. This Court is not free to do so," Lamberth   
   said.   
      
   Lamberth's ruling, which stunned the administration, stopped any further   
   medical research that involves the use of taxpayer dollars to fund projects   
   requiring the destruction of embryos. The appeals court ruling Tuesday   
   allows research to continue during the U.S. Justice Department appeal.   
      
   The litigation resulted from a lawsuit against the National Health Institute   
   filed by researchers opposed to use of embryonic stem cells, a group that   
   seeks adoptive parents for human embryos created through in vitro   
   fertilization, the nonprofit Christian Medical Association and others.   
      
   When the injunction was first issued by Lamberth in August, Ron Stoddart,   
   executive director of Nightlight Christian Adoptions -- one of the groups   
   that filed the lawsuit -- said he supported adult stem-cell research that   
   doesn't require destroying embryos.   
      
   "Frequently people will say why are you opposed to stem-cell research and of   
   course our answer is, 'We're not,' " Stoddart said. "We're opposed to the   
   destruction of the embryos to get embryo stem cells."   
      
      
      
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