What, exactly, did President Obama change with his executive action on embryonic stem cell research?
“What Obama did was to say that he was lifting that restriction in the executive order and that he was charging the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to come up with guidelines that should apply to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The NIH has to come up with guidelines in 120 days, so a lot of questions are still unanswered.” Q: What are some of the questions the NIH guidelines will have to address? A: “They will have to drill down about the source of the embryonic stem cells. So if they limit (the research) to embryos left over (from infertility treatments), that would not surprise me. It would not surprise me if they had an exclusive informed consent guideline in that the source of the embryos would have to provide consent for their embryos to be used for this kind of research. . . “There well may be guidance that draws clear lines between infertility treatment doctors on the one hand, and researchers on the other hand, so that you can’t be the treater and the resea
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