{"id":11653,"date":"2009-03-11T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_stem_cell_go_ahead_puts_obama_at_odds_with_pope\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:00:37","slug":"reuters_stem_cell_go_ahead_puts_obama_at_odds_with_pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Stem cell go-ahead puts Obama at odds with pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s lifting of restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research puts him at odds with Pope Benedict and the American Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>After Obama signed the order on Monday, the Vatican and U.S. and Italian Church leaders condemned the move. One commentator said the test of &#8220;a real democracy&#8221; was its defence of the most defenceless.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s executive order reversed and repudiated restrictions placed on the research by his predecessor, George W. Bush, freeing labs across the country to start working with the cells, which can give rise to any kind of cell in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops&#8217; committee on pro-life activities, called Obama&#8217;s decision &#8220;a sad victory of politics over science and ethics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=20723324\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s lifting of restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research puts him at odds with Pope Benedict and the American Roman Catholic Church. After Obama signed the order on Monday, the Vatican and U.S.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11653\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,96,616,154,151,636,667,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}