Obama signs a law forbidding fed money for embryo stem cell research

[Craftsman]

A friend sent this to me in a email apparently buried in H.R. 1105, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, there is a amendment outlawing use of federal funds for embryoy stem cell research. Obama signed it 2 days after signing his executive order OK'ing this. Below is the part of the bill, Sec 509:

SEC. 509. (a) 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 greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). (b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. Rather dickish of him. n/m

[Craftsman]

2. You might want to read what you sign

This is good advise no matter who you are

[JTFrog]

10. And you might want to get your info from other than right wing sources before you post. n/t

[IntravenousDemilo]

13. By "you", you of course mean the President, not me...? n/m

[Ian David]

3. Let's find out first it it is true. Only seeing the article of FR and Conservative (News Service.

Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It
Friday, March 13, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

(CNSNews.com) - On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."

The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996. 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.


The next day, President Obama signed H.R. 1105, the “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009,” which includes the Dickey-Wicker language. Unless Congress passes and President Obama signs new legislation to repeal Dickey-Wicker, it will now be the law of the land at least through September 30, when this fiscal year ends.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c111:./temp/~c111fr8iLm


More:
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44943

The link provided by CNS as back-up doesn't work.



And the Freepers once again plagiarized the entire article on their site and rejoiced thusly:

To: icwhatudo
The way I read this, some congressmen slipped anti-embryonic stem cell provisions into the omnibus bill and *O* signed it without realizing what he was signing.

So now, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is illegal...

... until September.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

11 posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 22:22:31 by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205575/reply?c=11



The only places I can find this mentioned ALL site CyberCast (Conservative) News Service, which in turn has a bad link to their back-up documentation.

[Craftsman]

4. The text of the bill

Is the text online yet?

[Ian David]

7. H.R.1105

H.R.1105
Title: Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Obey, David R. (introduced 2/23/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.RES.184
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 111-8
Note: An explanatory statement was submitted by Mr. Obey, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations "as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference." It appears in two 2/23/2009 Congressional Record documents on pages: H1653-H2088 and H2089-H2599.

http://tinyurl.com/dcwjsa

[globalvillage]

5. It prohibits federal funding from the stimulus bill money.

That's all. It's not a 'ban', just an amendment that got put in this one appropriations bill.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5249939#5250186

[Ian David]

6. Oh! Just bans money FROM THE STIMULUS BILL from being used, does NOT ban AL Federal money?

H.R.1105
Title: Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Obey, David R. (introduced 2/23/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.RES.184
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 111-8
Note: An explanatory statement was submitted by Mr. Obey, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations "as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference." It appears in two 2/23/2009 Congressional Record documents on pages: H1653-H2088 and H2089-H2599.

http://tinyurl.com/dcwjsa

[BuyingThyme]

8. If that's the actual language, it doesn't seem to ban or restrict anything

except to the extent that you can't use these particular funds for the described purposes (which are unclear to me). They probably stuck it in there to get a couple Pukes on board.

You can't use that money for beer, either. But that doesn't mean that drinking beer is illegal.

[globalvillage]

9. You mean there are no 'beermarks' in the bill?

Damn.

[BuyingThyme]

12. Obama is anti-beermarks.

[tekisui]

11. Nice try.