U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines: A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that encourages adoption of frozen embryonic children, filed the suit last year. Judge Royce Lamberth had ruled in June that the group has standing to sue over the guidelines that the National Institutes of Health developed for taxpayer-funded research that would involve the destruction of living human embryos.

NPR: Steven Aden of the Alliance Defense Fund represented a pair of researchers who study adult stem cells. The researchers argued that any money the government spends studying embryonic stem cells could come at the expense of their own, more established work.