Expediency Over Principle

Expediency Over Principle: Embryonic Stem Cell Federal Funding Lawsuit Dismissed » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s funding of stem cell research. The lawsuit, filed by Boston biological engineer James L. Shirley, asserted that the funding violated a 1996 law prohibiting federal taxpayer money from being directed to work that harms an embryo. The Obama administration policy allows research on embryos that were harvested long ago through private funding.