USA
Today reports. Excerpt:
Like previous presidents, Obama is expected
to issue a flurry of executive orders after he takes office Jan. 20. Some could
reverse Bush administration policies; others could promote his own.
Ending a ban on government funding for
research using embryonic stem cells would be among the most controversial.
"The question is, does the Bush policy
get replaced with the law of the jungle" where scientists can create and
clone human embryos for the sole purpose of studying their cells and then
destroying them, asks Richard Doerflinger, the bishops conference's associate
director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. "We are very
concerned about it as a moral issue."