Democrat pushes bill to fund embryonic stem cell research after ruling

LifeNews: “Representative Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, is responding to a judge’s decision issuing a temporary injunction against the funding President Barack Obama mandated through his executive order . . . Before the ruling, DeGette had filed legislation intended to codify Obama’s executive order and overturn the Dickey-Wicker law preventing taxpayer funding involving the destruction of human embryos the judge used to stop Obama’s order . . . Thomas G. Hungar, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, which includes the Alliance Defense Fund and the Christian Medical Association, said [that the statute] ‘bans public funding for any research that leads to the destruction of human embryos.’”