Judge rules against Barack Obama’s stem cell policy

  Today a United States justice stopped Barack Obama’s policy of providing federal funding of embryonic stem cell research stating that it violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment that is added every year to the federal budget.

  The Dickey-Wicker Amendment specifically bans the use of federal funding for the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that embryonic stem cell research did in fact destroy human embryos, therefore the Obama regime’s policy of providing federal funding to this procedure is against the law.

“(Embryonic stem cell) research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed,”

  Regardless of how this may be interpreted by the liberal main stream media, this does not constitute a ban on stem cell research–neither did President Bush’s embryonic stem cell policy. This ruling allows embryonic stem cell research to continue, but it stops federal money from being used to provide for the research.

  Being that I am pro-life I have to applaud this decision. I am opposed to the use of federal money for any procedure that ends a human life–from abortion to embryonic stem cell research. But the lesson that Barack Obama should take from this ruling is the fact that he just cannot do whatever the hell he pleases–he is the president, he does not rule by decree. If he wants to change the policies of the United States on any issue he simply cannot deem it changed, he must go through the proper procedures and this ruling does not stop him from doing just that.

  If Barack Obama wants to change the policy of funding embryonic stem cell research he can, he just needs to get the Congress to send him legislation that changes the law. He simply cannot declare a law null and void.

  This ruling should serve as notice to Barack Obama that the constitution sets up the proper procedures for implementing new laws and that he cannot just ignore the constitution to further his ideology.