As promised - Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

Common ground my asterisk (*):

Reversing Bush policy, President Barack Obama on Monday cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research and promised no scientific data will be "distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda."

Obama signed the executive order on the divisive stem cell issue and a memo addressing what he called scientific integrity before an East Room audience packed with scientists. He laced his remarks with several jabs at the way science was handled by former President George W. Bush. (AP)

Ryan T. Anderson responds in the Weekly Standard: Obama's decision is bad ethics, bad science, and bad politics. Obama at least stopped short of approving cloning.

More from LifeNews:

The following are several news stories related to President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stemcell research. The research requires the destruction of human life and has never helped a single patient. On the other hand, alternatives are already in use -- including adult stem cells andinduced pluripotent stem cells -- that are helping patients nowwithout killing days-old unborn children....

• President Barack Obama Makes Taxpayers Fund Embryonic Stem CellResearch
• Pro-Life Groups Blast Obama for Funding Research Destroying HumanLife
• Congress May Fight Battle Over Embryo Research After Obama StemCell Order
• Former Head of NIH: Embryonic Stem Cell Research ProspectsDiminished Now
• Obama Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research Seen as Ideological, Not Scientific

update: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a statement by Cardinal Justin Rigali on President Obama's executive order on embryonic stem cell research.