A Christian group has filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health, alleging that the policy on stem cell administration Obama violates federal law, reports the online journal Kansas Liberty.com .
The complaint was filed with the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, by James L. Sherley, a researcher of adult stem cells in biomedical research institute Boston and Theresa Deisher, R & D Director AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington. It is supported by, among others, Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a group that promotes the adoption of embryos left-over from fertility clinics. Sherley, he can remember, is the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who made a hunger strike in 07 to protest against a lack of diversity of faculty after he refused tenure.
The complainants argue that the federal policy that allows the use of human embryonic stem cells, but not their derivation by scientists funded by the federal, violates the Dickey-Wicker amendment, a provision of the law on the NIH appropriations which prohibits federal beneficiaries to research on human embryos. Federal guidelines "allow public funding for research and that depends, in fact, requires the destruction of living human embryos," the group of reasons.
Tony Mazzaschi of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, said the suit was not "a chance in hell" of success. A similar suit was filed last March in the Maryland District Court US per Night and others.
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