US Department of Justice Implies True Justice is Killing Embryos
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September 01, 2010 03:00 PM
The headlines raged and rejoiced. They included words like stunned and shock. In keeping with disturbing national trends, the outcry across the nation’s newspapers was magnified, all because a judge upheld the law.
We reported recently about Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued, who issued a preliminary injunction against embryonic stem-cell funding. Daring to stand in the face of a culture of death, and actually read the laws on the books and overturn federal funding for stem-cell research, Lamberth is being heralded more as a jester than a judge by much of the media and medical research industry.
The scientific community is in an uproar, declaring that we are devaluing life by standing for life. The Obama administration is suing to overturn the judge’s ruling because, as ABC News reports:
"The court’s order causes irrevocable harm to the millions of extremely sick or injured people who stand to benefit from continuing research,” said Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler.
Are you getting this? The United States Department of Justice is suing because a judge upheld a federal amendment designed to protect human embryos from destruction by not allowing them to be used for research. This law, the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, has been on the books since 1996. Suddenly the loss of financial payouts has created an argument that says true justice is killing embryos so researchers in universities can experiment and maybe one day find a cure for a disease—even though adult stem-cell research is the field in which great promise for healing diseases has been evidentially shown.
