Worthy News: House Fails to Override Stem Cell Veto - ABC News

[George]

President Bush rejected legislation Wednesday that could have multiplied the federal money going into embryonic stem cell research, using the first veto of his presidency to underscore his stand on the emotionally charged, life-and-death issue.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/abcnews-go-...int-id-2213785/

[tah]

That will protect us for a couple more years but it will not keep the Dem's and liberals from pushing it in the future...

I do not understand how anyone can use people who are created in the image of God as guinea pigs...

[billie]

The only way we cen keep em from pushin it in the future is vote, vote, vote. Vote pro-life in and pro-death out.

[anti-hillbilly]

I do not understand how anyone can use people who are created in the image of God as guinea pigs...

1) They're microscopic dots

2) created in a petrie dish

3) no pregnancy is ever involved

4) without implantation in a womb they stall out and stop growing around the two week period in the petri dish (they're the size of a pin head at that point.

5) These are not people; the potential to become a person is there; but they're not people yet and never will be because they get destroyed ANYWAY

What about that do you folks not understand?

The only way we cen keep em from pushin it in the future is vote, vote, vote. Vote pro-life in and pro-death out.

This veto was wrong and even conservatives are increasingly becoming supportive of this research as they become aware of what's really involved as opposed to the rethoric coming from the James Dobson's of the world. This veto was PRO-DEATH; not a single embryo will be preserved from this veto. For every invitro child you see there were on average 24 embryos created and either destroyed or just didn't "take". All those parents surrounding President Bush yesterday holding their invitro babies are just a bunch of hypocrites. They bypassed a "barren womb" and got what they wanted and now they basically say to hell with everybody else.

Scott Rosenberg sums it up better than I can:

Here is why Bush's position is a joke: Thousands and thousands of embryos are destroyed every year in fertility clinics. They are created in petri dishes as part of fertility treatments like IVF; then they are discarded.

If Bush and his administration truly believe that destroying an embryo is a kind of murder, they shouldn't be wasting their time arguing about research funding: They should immediately shut down every fertility clinic in the country, arrest the doctors and staff who operate them, and charge all the wannabe parents who have been wantonly slaughtering legions of the unborn.

But of course they'll never do such a thing. (Nor, to be absolutely clear, do I think they should.) Bush could not care less about this issue except as far as it helps burnish his pro-life credentials among his "base." This has been true since the first airing of Bush's position in 2001, as I said back then. So he finds a purely symbolic way of taking a stand, but won't follow the logic of his position to the place where it might cause him any political harm -- as opposing the family-building dreams of millions of middle-class Americans would doubtless do.

(And please don't test our credulity with the laughable "Go ahead and do the research, but let's not spend taxpayers' money on things they don't believe in" argument: If that had any bearing, my tax dollars would not be funding a war that 2/3 of the country opposes now that the specious arguments used to launch it have collapsed.)

If Bush believes destroying embryos is murder, let him take a real stand against it. If he doesn't, he shouldn't make it harder for the thousands of embryos that are being discarded anyway to be used for a valuable purpose that could improve real lives.

That's why Bush's stem cell position isn't Solomonic -- it's craven. His upcoming veto is an act not of moral leadership but of hypocrisy. And the cost of this hypocrisy, assuming Congress can't muster the votes for an override, will be borne by everyone who dreams of new cures for awful illnesses.

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[Marnie]

Hey Hillbilly...ever feel like you're a lone voice out there? The issue is two-fold: (1) As I have stated before, stem cell research will lead down a dead-end road. If this were not the case, private industry would be tripping over themselves to do the research. (2) It opens the door to other means of procurment (abortion, selling of embyos, etc.). Bush is correct in his opposition to the bill. Salon.com is probably not the best source to argue your opinion here.