Library of CongressFor sale once more?In 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring illegal the sale, purchase, or ownership of living human products, known then as people.In 2009, Barack Obama signed an order lifting restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research, a move that preceded by three weeks the apparent reversal of a key element of Lincoln's proclamation -- namely, the sale of merchandise that is homo sapien.
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