Stem Cell Research Debate

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ude strict laws and regulations impeding the continuation of research, and declaring such research ineligible for public funding. Stem cell research was a victim of these constructed blockades.

According to a report issued by the National Institutes of Health in 1999 discussing their attempts to reform the existing policies of publicly funded embryonic research Congress in 1995 passed a bill that attached a clause that prohibited the funding of any research that included human embryos. The bill vanquished all opportunities for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to garner monetary subsidies to continue stem cell research. The bill stated:
(a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for –
(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or

(2) research in which human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.208 (a)(2) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service A...