Dr. Roddy McGee on stem cells: what the evidence says · JRE #945
SUBJECT: STEM CELLS
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
So President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on the federal funding. So federal funding has been going on for it since then.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
President Obama's Executive Order 13505, signed March 9, 2009, reversed the Bush administration's 2001 policy that had restricted NIH funding to a limited set of pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines, and NIH guidelines effective July 7, 2009 expanded funding eligibility to additional human embryonic stem cell lines derived from IVF embryos no longer needed for reproductive purposes. However, the order did not lift all restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research: the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, a recurring appropriations rider in place since 1996, continued (and continues) to bar federal funds from being used to create human embryos for research or to derive stem cells by destroying embryos. Federal funding did expand and continue after 2009 for research using eligible existing stem cell lines, but the characterization that the funding ban was fully "lifted" overstates the order's effect, since a statutory funding bar on embryo creation/destruction remained in place throughout.