Bush hasn't used a veto in the almost 6 years he's been in office, until now. Bush has vetoed the bill that would allow federal funding for research on stem cells derived from frozen embryos that are going to be discarded anyway.
The thing about this that absolutely frustrates me is that this action, this veto, was done in the name of protecting life, done out of a concern for the sanctity of life. But it's a sanctimonious pile of shit.
Those who claim to be protecting life through these actions are more interested in protecting the potential of life rather than lives that exist today. That's why the nascent potential life of an embryo is more important than the lives of people who are alive and suffering now but could benefit from stem cell research. That's why protecting the potential future lives of children is used to prevent people who are suffering from using things like medical marijuana. That's why they fought so vigorously to keep Terri Schiavo alive, because there was a potential that she was alive, rather than pulling the plug like most every doctor recommended and letting those who were suffering around her move on.
I could berate you with personal stories of people suffering and in pain in my own family that could benefit from stem cell therapies, but is it going to do any good? Those of you, both of you, who opposed this bill need to look into your hearts and decide why it is not important to help the millions of people in this country alive today who need help who you're arrayed against.
The president's foolhardy decision is a decision which will sentence millions of people living today and in the future to painful and needless deaths. Sanctity of life? What sanctity of life?
Bush is an idiot yes. He has ruined a perfectly good opportunity, and as his first veto? MORON. Well this is good ammo for the democrats in their political races this fall. In particular the Michigan Governor's race. Gov Granholm has been trying to lift the ban on stem cell research because it could cure diseases and she feels it is hurting her research universities in her state as well as she is promoting life sciences industries as part of her economic plan.
Well Ashley,
I hope that people in the states do their best to assert their rights to do whatever research they want regardless of what people like Bush says.
The absolute last thing any sane person should be asking for is government interference in an area like stem cell research. King George may have vetoed it for the wrong reason, but economically and constitutionally, he Finally did the right thing (Plant American flag here...)
How many time must we go down this road of government funded failuers?
Mark my words, with government running stem cell research we will see results that Dr. Moreau would be horrified at!!!
Certainly I agree that there are things to be worried about with the government funding research into things like stem cells, but I'm not going to applaud the man for the decision he made when it comes from completely the wrong place. His decision was not made on the basis of fiscal soundness or a decision to limit the scope of government, but entirely from some desire of his to hold some high moral ground he perceives himself standing on.