Another Right Wing Internet Rumormongering Gone Wrong

[WeDidIt]

Now, the wingnuts are hyping the Dickey-Wicker Amendment in the omnibus spending bill Obama signed as prohibiting stem cell research.

Our "Intelligent" President Signs Law Banning Stem Cell Research...Without Even Knowing

The amendment says, in part: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."

Found in Section 509 of Title V of the omnibus bill (at page 280 of the 465-page document), the federal funding ban not only prohibits the government from providing tax dollars to support research that kills or risks injury to a human embryo, it also mandates that the government use an all-inclusive definition of “human embryo” that encompasses any nascent human life from the moment that life comes into being, even if created in a laboratory through cloning, in vitro fertilization or any other means.

“For the purposes of this section,” says the law, “the term ‘human embryo or embryos’ includes any organism … that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.”

The Dickey-Wicker amendment was originally introduced in 1995. But what these nimrod assholes left out was the fact that in 1998, the Clinton administration interpreted the Dickey-Wicker amendment to not include research on cells derived from human embryos. And that's precisely what stem cell research is.

This prompted Bush to issue his executive order limiting stem cell research to only existing lines.

That's the order Obama overturned a few days ago.

So what about the Dickey-Wicker amendment that exists in the omnibus bill that Obama just signed?

Well, when it comes to stem cell research, it doesn't mean dick.

Or is that wick?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Hush.......

Don't you go muddying the rightwingnut waters with things like verifiable facts. It disturbs the inmates and we all know what it's like when the rightwingnuts get confused............

[WeDidIt]

3. The Freepers are positivelyh orgasmic right now

and nobody is willing to be a killbuzz, either.

Fucks just don't know history and are unwilling to examine it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Their ignorance and stupidity

are breathtaking. I don't know anyone like that in real life, so the freepers are a whole different world. I just cannot imagine what people like that have going on inside their heads.

Seriously bad pathologies, though.

[CJPR]

2. Obama Restores Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Congratulations to President Obama for overturning Bush's eight year ban on the use of federal funds to support embryonic stem cell research. It's good to see an administration that puts science and knowledge back in the front seat again. It was sickening to watch so-called "religion" put a stop to scientific and medical advances for the past eight years. Must religion always be on the side of ignorance? Must it always exist in the Dark Ages? Must we still believe that the universe revolves around the Earth, and that ships can sail off the edge of the Earth into Hades? Is it really religion, or is it a cynical use of religion by political charlatans trying to hoodwink and control their followers which created this ban on stem cell research? It's a refreshing change, after the past eight years, to see someone with a real mind in the White House, who is using his mind for the benefit of all Americans, not just his business cronies.

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[CAG]

5. Maybe there getting confused with O'Leilly's Stickey-Dickey amendment

from a few years back.