Bush vetoes Stem Cell Research

[Zkribbler]

Bush vetoed his first bill ever today. The bill was to provide funding for embryonic stem cell research.

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Sen. Kennedy vowed to fight on for the funding, but as I see it, this will be a delay in funding for at least another 2 1/2 year until we get a new President.

[Guynemer]

Anyone care to justify this?

[Japher]

Bush thinks it's a kin playing god
damn religious fundies

[reismark]

So foolish.

[Lorizael]

Well, we all saw this coming. Can Congress get the two thirds majority required to overturn his veto?

[Japher]

I hope he dies from disease that is cured through stem cells the day after he dies

[Sava]

Originally posted by Guynemer




Anyone care to justify this?

you don't have a bunny in your sig...

therefore

all positions you believe in are wrong


if Bush were on these forums, he would have a bunny in his sig

Bush

you

Christopher Reeve

[Ben Kenobi]

Actually the Senate failed to overturn Bush's Veto.

As for defending this bill, Bush talked about the Snowflake embryo adoption program. The choice is always listed between letting the embryos go to the garbage or letting them be used for medical experimentation.

The real choice is that there are other much better options, if you can't look after these kids you can give them to someone else who would rather look after them then give them up for experimentation. I can't see why this would be considered a bad solution.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
I can't see why this would be considered a bad solution.

Of course you can't.

[Chemical Ollie]

I would rather eat a smelly Bush than a blob in a jar

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
As for defending this bill, Bush talked about the Snowflake embryo adoption program. The choice is always listed between letting the embryos go to the garbage or letting them be used for medical experimentation.

The sad thing is, there's no reason to have to make a choice. There's more than enough aborted fetus tissue to go around.

Bush's veto would be logical if the use of stem cells increased the number of abortions. But since that's not the case, all this veto does is to bar federal funding for experimentation into the most promising are of medical care ever.

[Chemical Ollie]

It's a freaking blob in a jar! The fetus does not vote.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Bush sucks

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
The real choice is that there are other much better options, if you can't look after these kids you can give them to someone else who would rather look after them then give them up for experimentation.

Are you talking about adoption programs for bona fide people, or something else entirely?

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
It's a freaking blob in a jar! The fetus does not vote.

It's a potential voter. In 18 years it might become a voter, so logically it's already a voter. Or something.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Actually the Senate failed to overturn Bush's Veto.
.

Oh, they've already attempted to overturn it? I didn't know that, these things move faster than I would have thought.