I just got an email from my local news station saying that Bush has vetoed the new stem cell bill.
Here is the article:
WASHINGTON -- Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President George W. Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
Democrats, who had made the stem cell legislation a top priority when they took control of the House and Senate in January, were quick to denounce the president's decision.
"This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told the Take Back America conference of liberal activists Wednesday.
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2007-06-20 07:02:43 · 13 answers · asked by Flip-Flop Crazy Girl 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
He's a born again Christian. Would you expect anything else from that idiot? He's more concerned about giving free handouts to illegal aliens than he is about curing diseases, which stem cell research could do.
2007-06-20 07:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Bestie 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No he shouldn't veto this bill. the completed ethics argument will become mute once you think approximately the alternative to the learn lab for those embryos is the dumpster. Is the embryo by some ability much less lifeless in a dumpster? A veto does no longer something yet deprive scientific learn of an embryo that advance into in any different case going to finally end up interior the trash.
2016-10-08 21:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason for Bush's veto is that the process most often used to harvest embryonic stem cells involves the destruction of a human embryo. To date, no President as allow tax payer money to fund any process that destroys human embryos.
As the fact of when life begins is still uncertain, it is best to err on the side of caution and protect what could possibly be a human life.
Additional lines of stem cells are available: from umbilical cords, embryonic fluid, etc. It is not neccessary to destroy a fetus to get the cells. (Just cheaper)
Bush's veto does not prevent the harvesting of stem cells from multiple sources. It does not restrict stem cell research. It does not outlaw medical breakthroughs or new discoveries. All those will continue unrestricted and legal.
It merely assure that those of us who believe life begins at conception are not forced to have our tax money used to pay the cost of committing what to us is a sin - the destruction of a human life.
2007-06-20 07:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the right thing to do. Do you even know how they get that embryonic fluid to do the research with? They inject a needle in the base of the scull and suck out the fluid, killing the fetus. Which is another form of abortion with another name attached in the name of RESEARCH.
With all the forms of birth control available. We shouldn't even have a fetus available to do this RESEARCH with.
Notice where Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. stood on the issue, out of touch with reality, what is the reality of stem cell research on embryos.
2007-06-20 07:12:50 · answer #4 · answered by grinslinger 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not just his ideology.
By signing that bill, he is ordering all taxpayers in the country to pay for embryonic stem cell research, regardless of how they might feel about it.
The research itself is certainly legal and free to continue. Perfhaps George Soros could fund it.
2007-06-20 07:12:59 · answer #5 · answered by suenami_98 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If he signed the bill, that would go against his pro life stance he uses to get the "Christian Right" vote. They would be all up in arms if he passed it without a fight.
I think there might be enough to override a veto. . .
2007-06-20 07:19:11 · answer #6 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bush is just mad over his caricature/comedy Lil Bush on Comedy Central. Helping other people isn't involved in the Bush agendas. OH yes, yet another Bush sighing statement along with the veto.
2007-06-20 07:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by leonard bruce 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because the funding shouldnt come from the government.
Stay the hell out of my damn paycheck.
2007-06-20 07:26:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush says he wont allow federal funding to destroy fetuses, yet he has no problem using it to kill people out of the womb.
2007-06-20 07:14:19 · answer #9 · answered by R8derMike 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because he's let the fact that he got away with stealing an election get to his head, he's dumb, self-centered, self-righteous, walks a straight line, sees things in black and white...
579 days until he's out. (It's a Firefox extension.)
2007-06-20 07:11:36 · answer #10 · answered by waterskater 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋