Surrounded by babies and toddlers who began life as frozen embryos and were later adopted, Bush declared, “These boys and girls are not spare parts.”
“They remind us of what is lost when embryos are destroyed in the name of research,” the president said. “They remind us that we all begin our lives as a small collection of cells, and they remind us that in our zeal for new treatments and cures America must never abandon our fundamental morals.”
It’s not as if withholding the funds for research is going to save anyone’s “life”. I suspect the opposite; funding stem cell research will save lives. I think withholding funds from stem cell research is immoral! Does the President have a sudden affinity for rats? I completely fail to follow that logic.
From what little I know stem cells are what makes our existence possible. I understand stem cells are the foundation from which we build all our other cells. Sounds like pretty important stuff to me. I’d like it if we gave some money to people who want to spend their time researching stem cells.Â
Nay-sayers like to conjure horrific images; again like the President for example:
At the White House, Bush issued his veto in private, without cameras present. He also signed a bill into law to prohibit “fetal farming,” growing fetuses for the sole purpose of harvesting tissue, which is something that scientists say is not happening.
Horrifying if it were true but is that what funding this research is about? There’s a difference between testing lab rats and running matrix-like body-part farms and it’s disappointing to think the President doesn’t understand that.
As he explained his decision in the ornate East Room of the White House, he noted that he was the first president to provide funding for embryonic stem cell research. He pointed out that there is no ban on this research.
Yeah well it’s too bad he didn’t sign the check. I dont think anyone doesn’t know anybody who hasn’t benefited from the medical science. Â
Senator Gordon Smith says it much more eloquently than I do:
“Today’s decision marks an unusually tragic first use of this president’s veto pen,” said Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., who has watched members of his family succumb to Parkinson’s disease. “When it is a matter of improving life for the living, I choose to err on the side of hope, healing and health; and I am disappointed that the president did not do the same.”