As promised, President Barack Obama has overturned his predecessor's policy and created an incentive to destroy human embryos for federally funded research.
"The latest government bailout was announced today as Obama will now attempt to bail out the morally bankrupt and failing industry of destructive embryonic stem-cell research," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action.
"Americans deserve the very best investment of our tax dollars, and embryonic stem-cell research doesn't make the grade. After years and millions of dollars in research, no patient has been successfully treated with human embryonic stem cells."
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., said: "It’s particularly sad since recent scientific breakthroughs have made it completely unnecessary to even consider research that destroys human embryos."
In another blow to family advocates, Obama announced Friday he wants to overturn rules that protect health care providers' freedom of conscience.
President George W. Bush’s Department of Health and Human Services put the regulations in place in December to reinforce federal laws that protect doctors from being forced to participate in abortion and other anti-life practices.
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., both medical doctors, are asking their colleagues to join them in signing letters urging Obama to protect rights of conscience.
The public will be able to comment on Obama's proposal to overturn the Bush freedom of conscience regulations.
