Vetoing Hope
Posted by Michael Link on June 19, 2007 at 02:13 PM
One day somebody is going to have to explain to me how blocking research that's potentially lifesaving encourages a "culture of life." Yet tomorrow, President Bush is schedule to once again veto the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, which would greatly increase the number of embryonic stem cell lines available to scientists looking to cure debilitating diseases.
If he vetoes, it's not all over. ScienceNow News reported a while back that Sen. Harkin "hints that he might put money in the 2008 budget for [National Institutes of Health] to support work using embryonic stem cells."
Still, today we all urge President Bush to sign this bill, despite the threats. And to get a better idea of what this debate is all about, this YouTube video explains:
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Good. Let's go "nu-cu-lar," ditch the cloture rule like the Republicans threatened to get two more brownshirts on the USSC, and push this one through.
Frankly I'm sick of filibusters whether they are blue or red. Let's get something done. The first 100 days were followed by...
Bush is a Chimp.
The GOP are goons.
it's beyond the time to veto george bush. he has a "zero" concept of "science" and using the religious card of killing life makes him a hypocrite...look to the deaths he caused in iraq ... and now he's on to the gaza strip...the middle east is not a killing field? somehow, someone in the demo party better wake up and lead ... confront this moron playing president... and i'm not sorry to say, jimmy carter best be quiet. he had his chance and then stood down. suggest he return to building habitats for humanity. this STEM CELL issue, along with the iraq mess, and other hot button issues calls for leadership? any demo leaders out there vs voice boxes of appeasment to george bush? the voters in the last election gave you a mandate. use it or lose it.
its funny how a guy who cares so much for embryos cared so little about people already born when he bombed 100,000 or so iraqis. why aren't these guys protesting fertility clinincs that make too many embryos anyway?
Leave it to the Republican president to deny mostly the middle to lower classes what is deemed garbage by the fertility clinics. Stem cell trials are available to his class but one one in need can have it.
Again, what I call the penny wise but dollar foolishness of this administration's mind set extends the living devastation many suffer through. If no interest exists in finding a cure then human eutanasia should be a legal choice of the ones who suffer.
Not enough money to have a quality life while fortced to exist on SSA disability. Less access to medical care because of gas prices limit or end travel. Less prescription coverage for most.
The idea in play appears to be the biblically correct elimination of the weakest.
Oh well, at least those in need of the research are so imperfect they cannot wind up in Iraq either.
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