The Obama administration can’t continue to fund embryonic stem-cell research while appealing a decision banning government support for any activity using cells taken from human embryos, a federal judge decided.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington today upheld his own ruling pending an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. The Justice Department argued in seeking to delay the ban that the injunction itself will cause irreparable harm to researchers, taxpayers and scientific progress.