Stem Cells: Vetoes, Half-truths, And Outright Lies

[jayfish]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/7/21/4725?posted=true

Earlier in the week we covered the Senate's impending votes on bills HR810, S3504, and S2754. As expected, all three were approved by the Senate. The first, HR810, would have allowed NIH funding for the use of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines and primary cultures created after the April 2001 executive order issued by George W. Bush during his first term. President Bush is personally opposed to conducting such research, and true to his word, issued his first ever presidential veto in six years. By way of contrast, President Clinton issued 37 vetoes over the course of two terms, and the first President Bush issued 44 in a mere four years.

Just another shout-out to Ars. They try to be a little too fair and balanced at the end but I'll cut'em some slack.

Jay

[BOSSHOG]

1. I disagree that george bush

is "personally opposed to conducting such research." That monster of a human being doesn't give a flying dog fuck about that research, he just knows he has to throw a bone to the neanderthals so they'll throw some campaign money for the party of evil and hate back. It must be ashame that a person has to go through life not wanting to upset the religiously insane.