The White House has dismissed
the members of the US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandatfe expires, indicating their services
are no longer required by [Barack Obama] and that he is looking for a more “practical” advisory board.
The New York Times reported that Reid Cherlin, a White House press officer, told
the paper that Barack Obama saw them as "a philosophically leaning advisory group" designed by the previous Bush
administration, and he wanted to appoint a new bioethics commission which instead "offers practical policy options."
The council’s mandate was set to expire in September. The group still had
one last meeting and some reports to finish before they were abruptly dissolved with one day’s notice.
The move has prompted speculation that the advisory committee’s public dissent
from the Barack Obama's executive order to fund new lines of [the sin of] embryonic stem-cells and begin [the sin of] cloning
human embryos for scientific research may have precipitated their dismissal.
Earlier in March, 10 out of 18 members of the council had issued a public letter to Barack Obama expressing their dismay,
calling the decision to devote taxpayer dollars to such embryo-destroying research “a step backward,” because
it did not respect the moral and ethical reservations of the American public.
Obama’s executive order overturned restrictions put in place by the Bush Administration, and instructed the National
Institute of Health to develop new guidelines and put them in place by July 7.
Dr. David Prentice, a Senior Fellow for Life Sciences at the Family Research Council noted in an article
on the FRC blog that Obama likely dismissed them before the expiration of their work since, “It would be embarrassing
to have another round of criticism from an existing 'Council.’”
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