February 10 - Barack Obama Pushes FDA to Allow Scientists to Create Three-Parent Embryos
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Engineering
Pro-abortion President Barack Obama made a move this week that brings to light his support for scientific research involving the destruction of human life to create three-parent embryos.Pro-life U.S. Congressman Chris Smith’s office told LifeNews that the president removed pro-life embryo-protection language from the proposed 2017 budget, which was released Tuesday.
The language, introduced by U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama, is essential to protecting living human embryos from destruction, according to Smith’s office. They told LifeNews:
Chairman Aderholt included language in the FY16 Omnibus (Agriculture appropriations) that prevents the FDA from approving the genetic modification of human embryos, such as the creation of “three parent” embryos. This language is needed because the proposed techniques for genetic alteration of human embryos manipulate young human life, create new individuals as experiments, and destroy human embryos in the process of the experiments. The scientific community in the US has made clear it would like to create genetically modified human embryos, recently releasing a report that advises the FDA to move forward with approving these controversial technologies. The only safeguard against FDA action in favor of genetically modifying human embryos is the Aderholt provision.
While Aderholt’s provision in the federal budget protected young human life from genetic experimentation in 2016, the president’s actions threaten lives in 2017. Obama’s slashing of the pro-life provision comes just a week after a committee of scientists and ethicists recommended that the FDA approve three-parent embryo techniques for use in in vitro fertilization in the United States
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