US President Obama has ended Bush’s 8-year ban on stem cell research. Obama has lifted all the restrictions on federal funding as he vowed to ”vigorously support” for research on new stem cell lines. Obama said he was authorising a change “so many scientists and researchers and doctors and innovators, patients and loved ones have hoped for and fought for these past eight years”. A move which the American public have been widely in favour of for sometime and has lead some scientists to predict that the reseach will lead to medical breakthroughs.
Stem Cell Research
Bush – one of the least popular Ex-Presidents of all time – banned the use of any government money to fund reseatch on human embryonic stem cell research. This may have been due to his, and the country’s largly religious population’s, opposition to it. However, recent opinion polls suggest that that view has changed to being in favour of the research.
