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he can't find a working pen ? Quoting "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>: > An article in Nature News (online Feb 24, 2009) raises the possibility of > legal challenges to an Obama executive order and that there might be a need > for accompanying legislation. see: > > Stem-cell inaction prompts concern > Legal complexities may underlie the delay in fulfilling election pledge. > > http://www.nature.com/news/2009/0902.../4571068a.html > > excerpt: > "Some Washington insiders suggest that there is no more to the delay than a > president consumed by a major economic crisis. Others note that the new > administration had (at the time Nature went to press) yet to install a > National Institutes of Health (NIH) director or secretary of health and human > services — key people the president will need to rely on to enact an > executive order and serve as the public face of the administration on a > controversial issue. > > Yet others contend that Obama's lack of action five weeks into his presidency > highlights the complexity of the legal issues involved in reversing the Bush > ban, which limited federal funding for stem-cell research to a score of lines > derived before 9 August 2001. > > Louis Guenin, a lecturer on ethics at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, > Massachusetts, believes that an Obama executive order could be successfully > challenged in court in the absence of enacted legislation explicitly > approving federal funding for stem-cell research. That, he says, is because > of the Dickey–Wicker amendment: a law first enacted by Congress in 1995 and > renewed each year since, which prohibits US funding of research in which > embryos are created or destroyed. " > > The article states some of the top stem cell researchers such as George Daley > and John Gearhart are now looking into the legal issues. > _._,_.___ > > __,_._,___ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn