ADF attorney available to media at embryonic stem cell research hearing Monday

WHO: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden, Samuel B. Casey of the Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project, lead counsel Ryan Watson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

WHAT: Available for media interviews following oral arguments in Sherley v. Sebelius, a lawsuit challenging an Obama administration policy that authorized the National Institutes of Health to fund additional research projects that destroy human embryos even though a federal law known as the Dickey/Wicker Amendment specifically prohibits such funding.

WHEN: Immediately after hearing, which begins at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 23

WHERE: U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, 333 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington

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