Bush vetoes stem cell bill, but what point is he making with this photo op?

[ProSense]

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Wed Jun 20, 3:43 PM ET
President Bush, left, accompanied by the McNamara family of
Middletown, Conn., from second from left, spina bifida patient
Kaitlyne McNamara, her parents Mike and Tracy McNamara, and
brother Ian McNamara, right, makes remarks on stem cell
research, Wednesday, June 20, 2007, in the East Room of the
White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Bush vetoes embryonic stem cell bill

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
8 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him by signing an executive order urging scientists toward what he termed "ethically responsible" research in the field.

Bush announced no new federal dollars for stem cell research, which supporters say holds the promise of disease cures, and his order would not allow researchers to do anything they couldn't do under existing restrictions.

Announcing his veto to a roomful of supporters, Bush said, "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. I made it clear to Congress and to the American people that I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line."

He vetoed similar embryonic stem cell legislation last July.

His executive order encourages scientists to work with the government to add other kinds of stem cell research to the list of projects eligible for federal funding — so long as it does not create, harm or destroy human embryos.

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[GeorgeGist]

1. Point ...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html

[ProSense]

2. So he vetoed the bill to help her? n/t

[KansDem]

3. I don't know...the article or slide show doesn't say that this family agrees with him...

Could spina bifida be cured with stem cell research and this family feels that to cure Kaitlyne in such a manner is not as important as their religious beliefs?

If so, then OK for them, but I still want Bush and his followers to keep their hands off my cure for diabetes.


on edit: read post no. 1, but I still think the scientists and researchers should be the ones to decide...

[BlooInBloo]

4. I wonder if that's the insane religious woman from the wife-switching show?

If so, maybe gw is demonstrating the power of faith-based bullshit.

PRAAAAZZE JAAAYYYZUZZZ!!!!

[dflprincess]

8. I can tell by your attitude toward that good Christian woman that your are a

dark sider! (Isn't that the term she used?).

I wish I had a tape of that show, I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard I could barely breath.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Ask and ye shall recieve with manifold blessings, my daughter....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCODIhAXbQM

:rofl:


EDIT: Even god makes subject line typos.

[dflprincess]

12. You are a warm and generous human being

perhaps I was wrong about you being a dark sider...Or perhaps we're cut of the same cloth :evilgrin:

[polmaven]

5. I will guess that these are people

opposed to "embryonic stem cell research", even though Kaitlyn has spin bifida, and are smart enough to know that other research from other cells will work just as well.

'Course, they, like he, will conveniently leave out the fact that the bill he vetoed specifies the blastocysts used will those about to be discarded.....and that the donors must give their permission for them to be used.

No, it is obviously MUCH more moral to flush them down the toilet than to use them in research that could potentially save lives. That makes him a good pro lifer, after all.

What God fearing pro lifer could ever choose a living, breathing human being over a group of cells about to be discarded as useless?

Surely not the McNamaras!

GOD!!!! I wish one of the librul media would ask him about that! What about that, Mr. (P)resident? How can it POSSIBLY be more moral to destroy the cells than to save and/or improve lives with them? Do you REALLY think God would agree? Not the God I believe in, Mr. (P)resident. Not the God I pray to!

May you change your views before you BURN IN A HELL OF YOUR OWN MAKING Mr. (P)resident!

[keep_it_real]

6. Stem cell success is bad 4 big pharma

The more diseseses that stem cell is proved to cure the less big pharma has to make drugs for and sell to america and the world.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi keep_it_real!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[pinkpops]

7. Needs to be stroked by his base so he rubs against their legs

[spanone]

9. standing firmly against progress in science. dumbfucks.

[uppityperson]

11. Up is Down. eom