To the guardians of biomoral , everything is uneasy
In the US, opponents of the study of embryonic stem cells have again appealed to the court
This is reported by Science Now! (Stem Cell Opponents Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court).
This litigation has been going on for three years. Two American scientists studying adult stem cells filed a lawsuit in 2009 demanding to prohibit the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding embryonic stem cell research (hESC).
They went to court after US President Barack Obama ordered to soften the 16-year–old law - the so-called Dickey-Wicker Amendment. According to the amendment, state organizations are prohibited from financing research during which embryos are destroyed. NIH, in turn, issued the relevant guidance documents for the execution of the President's order.
In August 2010, the plaintiffs won the first trial, during which a preliminary injunction was issued for the NIH to fund such research. Subsequently, the defendants filed an appeal, and the court first suspended the ban, and then canceled it altogether.
The plaintiffs did not agree with this turn of events and decided to appeal the lifting of the ban. The case was reviewed again in the summer of 2012, and in August the Court of Appeal upheld its previous decision. Despite the fact that the three judges agreed, their arguments were different due to the ambiguity of the legislation.
Based on this, on October 10, 2012, the plaintiffs decided to challenge the permission to finance embryonic stem cell research in the US Supreme Court. They also drew the attention of the judges of the highest instance that after the softening of the legislation, many people opposed the study of hESC, whose protests NIH ignored.
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