StemCell Therapy

Signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, Congress passed the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, in which Jay Dickey and Roger Wicker argued against funding research in which human embryos were created and then destroyed for the purpose of stem cells.

In 2001 President George Bush passed an executive order further limiting research on stem cells by preventing the creation of additional embryonic stem cell lines to add to the 22 in existence at the time. Federal funds were confined for use only in stem cell lines already in existence. In 2009 our current President, Barack Obama had authorized a new executive order highlighting three conditions to be fulfilled for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.According to How Stem Cells Work, by Stephanie Watson and Craig Freudenrich, these three conditions were:1) The cell line was one of the 22 in existence during the Bush administration or was created from embryos that had been discarded after in vitro fertilization procedures.2) The donors of the embryos were not paid in any way.3) The donors clearly knew that the embryos would be used for research purposes prior to giving consent.

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