When President Obama lifts restrictions on funding for human embryonic stem cell research today, he will also issue a presidential memorandum aimed at insulating scientific decisions across the federal government from political influence, officials said yesterday.
"The president believes that it's particularly important to sign this memorandum so that we can put science and technology back at the heart of pursuing a broad range of national goals," Melody C. Barnes, director of Obama's Domestic Policy Council, told reporters during a telephone briefing yesterday.
It is truly sickening that the it is claimed that this issue is not inherently moral and political. That Nazis tortured Jews in the name of science that they freed from ethical, religious and political considerations. I see no fundamental moral difference between that and what is taking place today.