BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers agreed on Monday to permit limited use of EU funds for research involving human embryonic stem cells provided it does not entail destroying embryos.

The compromise came just days after President George W. Bush vetoed an expansion of such work in the United States in a move that won praise from churches and anti-abortion campaigners.

Germany had led a coalition of eight countries that sought to bar any European public funding for human stem-cell research.


The deal paved the way for the adoption of the 25-nation bloc's 55.6-billion-euro ($70.16 billion) seven-year science programme aimed at narrowing the research gap with the United States and spurring economic growth.

EU president Finland said the compromise would ban allocating EU cash for research that involves destroying human embryos, including for the procurement of stem cells.

Extracting the human embryonic stem cells entails destroying the embryo, a step churches and some ethics campaigners say is tantamount to murder.
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I just don't get it.........the range of good that this could do.
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . EU agrees limited funds for stem cell research BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers agreed on Monday to permit limited use of EU funds for research involving human embryonic stem cells provided it does not entail destroying embryos. The compromise came just days after President George W. Bush vetoed an expansion of such work in the United States in a move that won praise from churches and anti-abortion campaigners. Germany had led a coalition of eight countries that sought to bar any European public funding for human Rating: 5