Wednesday, July 19, 2006
The Research Can Continue. It's The FEDERAL FUNDING That's Been Removed
American taxpayers would for the first time in our history be compelled to fund the deliberate destruction of human embryos and I'm not going to allow it," [President Bush] said.
The 2001 ban provides government money only for so-called lines of stem cells that already existed when the order came into effect, not for any new lines.
Two other less controversial bills received unanimous backing from the Senate, and were signed into law by President Bush.
When I took office, there was no federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Under the policy I announced five years ago, my administration became the first to make federal funds available for this research, yet only on embryonic stem cell lines derived from embryos that have already been destroyed.
My administration has made available more than $90 million for research on these lines.
What I sought in 2001 when I set forth my administration's policy [is] allowing federal funding for research on embryonic stem cell lines where the life-and-death decision had already been made.
This balanced approach has worked. Under this policy, 21 human embryonic stem cell lines are currently in use in research that is eligible for federal funding. Each of these lines can be replicated many times and, as a result, the National Institutes of Health have helped make more than 700 shipments to researchers since 2001.
There is no ban on embryonic stem cell research. To the contrary, even critics of my policy can see that these federally funded lines are being used in research every day by scientists around the world.
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