Arguments Heard on Stem Cell Funding Ban

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Beth Brinkmann today urged a three judge panel of the DC Circuit, Court of Appeals to stay a District Court judge's preliminary injunction banning funding of embryonic stem cell research, but two of the judges seemed unpersuaded.

Judge Griffith interrupted Brinkmann to say, “If you can’t show irreparable harm, nothing else you show matters”.

Bloomberg story here.

Update :  The Appeals Court yesterday agreed with the DOJ and will allow embryonic stem-cell research to continue for now.