Is a stem cell a "human life"? I say the suggestion is laughable. The Bible-thumping President W, however disagrees.
| President Bush used his veto power Wednesday for the first time since taking office 5 1/2 years ago, saying that an embryonic stem-cell research bill "crossed a moral boundary". The bill, which the Senate passed Tuesday, 63-37, would have loosened the restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research. "This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others", Bush said Wednesday afternoon. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. So I vetoed it". "These boys and girls are not spare parts", he said of the children in the audience. (Bush vetoes embryonic stem-cell bill). |
The ONLY thing this bill can accomplish is condemning to death (or pain) sick people who might have been helped via this kind of research. How many deaths, or how much suffering could have been avoided? We'll never know. But I doubt the answer is zero.
Which is why I say this represents the Republican culture of death. Death for people why could have been helped, and "death" for the embryos... which will STILL be disposed of! W's vetoing doesn't force women to incubate the many unused embryos generated by fertility clinics (for instance), does it? Of course not! The fertility clinic owners will continue to flush these unwanted "boys and girls" down the drain (metaphorically. I don't know how they actually dispose of them. But they must assuredly do trashcan these "innocent human lives").
Anyway, is W actually a "Bible-thumper", or is this all about pandering to the Religious Right? I say it's the latter. This guy is dumb, but I find it hard to believe that he's THIS dumb.
