Sponsor of Stem Cell Bill Says Senate Could Override a Veto
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/politics/26stem.html?
WASHINGTON, May 25 - Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican
and chief sponsor of a bill to expand federal financing for human embryonic
stem cell research, issued a stark challenge to President Bush on Wednesday,
saying he had enough votes in the Senate to override a presidential veto of
the measure.
"I believe that the use of federal monies that end up destroying life
is not - is not positive, it's not good," Mr. Bush said.
"And so, therefore, I'm against the extension of the research,
of using more federal dollars on new embryonic stem cell lines."
In August 2001, Mr. Bush opened the door to federal financing of the
science, but with strict limits. The bill pending in the Senate would
expand his policy by allowing the government to pay for studies on
embryos in frozen storage at fertility clinics, so long as the couples
conceiving them certified they would otherwise discard them.
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If we don't do it, the Brits or some other country certainly will.
Bush will offshore stem cell research, just like he did with so
many other American jobs that Americans allegedly don't want to do.
Moral high ground ? Bush is dealing under the table.
Conservative Christians are Protestants in denial.
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