Dr. David Prentice, who is a fellow at the Family Research Council, comments to The Corner:

It’s disappointing, but this is only one small piece of the entire litigation–the preliminary injunction from last August.
That block on federal funds only lasted 2 weeks until DOJ got a temporary stay, so today’s decision doesn’t change the status quo, the federal taxpayer funds are still flowing for human embryonic-stem-cell research.
Judge Lamberth has yet to decide on the primary lawsuit. And even at the Appeals level, Justice Henderson had some scathing remarks for her colleagues & their rationale for today’s decision, calling it “linguistic jujitsu.” This is just another step in the legal path. Our hope is that federal funding will, rather than embryonic stem cells, go to adult stem cells, which are already treating thousands of patients a year for dozens of diseases. That’s the real ethical use of stem cell funding.