Economics
United States Government Funding and Regulations
July 11, 1974
Congress bans all federally funded fetal tissue research.
December 31, 1994
Federal panel votes 18-3 to approve funding of embryo research.
"President Ronald Reagon does not renew the Ethic's Advisory Board's charter. Without a charter and funding, the only lawful body able to review embryo research is dissolved and never replaced."
Dickey-Wicker Amendment bans all federal funding for embryonic research.
November 30, 1988
December 31, 1979
President Obama removes previous stem cell research ban.
February 28, 2009
President George W. Bush prohibits federal funding for embryonic stem cell research except those already made and being researched on. There were around 64 of them, it was later found most were contaiminated or had genetic mutations making them unfit for research.
August 8, 2001