On Monday, federal judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. correctly ruled that the Obama administration is not obeying the 1996 law which outlawed the destruction of human embryonic stem cells. In March 2009, the president issued an executive order expanding federal funding of human embryo research.

Judge Lamberth ruled that the federal funding by the Obama administration for such research violated a 1996 law prohibiting federal money for research in which an embryo was destroyed. Today's "The Wall Street Journal" reported that opponents of Obama's federal funding for human embryonic stem cell destruction research said that such research "leads to the destruction of the embryo" which "is tantmount to taking a life, and have opposed such experiments on ethical grounds."

In the article, David Stevens, executive director of the Christian Medical Association is quoted as saying: "People forget that each one of us was an embryo, and if someone destroyed us for biological parts, we wouldn't be around today." He also was quoted by LifeNews.com saying, "This case highlights the harm that diverting federal funds away from proven effective research poses to those patients who are waiting for cures. We are grateful that the Court also recognizes the clarity of the law and the harm that funding illegal and unethical embryo-destroying research poses to ethical researchers."

Dr. Stevens also said, ""The bottom line is that ethical stem cell research that does not destroy a living human embryo is the fastest, most efficient and effective means to obtaining real cures for real patients. Already providing hope and help for patients with over 70 diseases, ethical stem cell research that does not destroy living human embryos holds proven promise for even more amazing breakthroughs in the future."

The law prohibiting such immoral human embryonic stem cell research came about as a result of an amendment introduced by former Congressman Jay Dickey, R-AR and now-Senator Roger Wicker, R-MS which was passed into law in 1996. The Dickey/Wicker amendment has been renewed by Congress each year since 1996. Yet, the Obama administration willfully ignored the law in issuing the executive order.

A lawsuit was filed by a group of stem cell researchers -- including those belonging to the Christian Medical Association -- against Obama's executive order allowing this abominable research. The researchers said that the executive order and the funding by the National Institutes of Health violated the Dickey/Wicker amendment and on Monday, Judge Lamberth agreed with them.

Regarding the Democrats' promise this week to overturn the judge's decision through legislation, next year's probable new Speaker of the House, Congressmn John Boehner, R-OH, said: "Republicans are for stem-cell research that does not require the destruction of human embryos." The House Republican Whip, Eric Cantor from Virginia, said that "millions of Americans" found embryonic stem-cell research "morally reprehensible."

It is time that the United States Congress -- hopefully with many new members next year -- end this reprehensible and immoral human embryonic stem cell research once and for all. The great successes from ethical stem cell research, which does not destroy human embryos, shows that there is absolutely no need for such immoral research.