Halt to U.S. stem cell funding may thwart search for new cures

Bloomberg: “For opponents of the field, federal funding for such research equates to taxpayer support for the destruction of human life, said [Steven H. Aden], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund in Washington, a Christian organization that represented the two remaining plaintiffs in the case. ‘The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments — prohibited by federal law — that destroy human life,’ Aden said yesterday in a statement on the alliance’s website.