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Indecisive politics threatens UW research
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Indecisive politics threatens UW research

Last Thursday, the Obama administration formally challenged a court order by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to suspend the federal funding of stem-cell research. Lamberth's injunction, issued on Aug. 23, blocked President Obama's push for public endowment on the basis that such funding violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. The amendment was a ""rider"" to a 1995 bill, meaning that it would never have passed as its own legislation, and thus was added onto a distantly related proposal. Dickey-Wicker specifically bars public funding for the creation and endangerment of embryonic cells for research purposes.



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