Why couldn’t it have been a spending bill? – Bush casts his first veto to kill the stem cell bill. I’m torn on this issue: there’s a genuine potential that stem cells can lead to medical breakthroughs but I’m convinced the supporters of this research are over-selling this potential. We’re not going to solve Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease overnight.
Extra – From Oak Leaf on Polipundit: “Private embryonic stem cell research was legal yesterday, is legal today and is legal next week. President Bush is the first President to ever provide funds for embryonic stem cell research. The Administration has made available more than $90 million for research on existing embryonic stem cell lines. This small amount of funding is dwarfed by the research budgets of the pharmaceutical companies.”
3 comments:
[i]We’re not going to solve Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease overnight.[/i]
Indeed. So why start?
[i]President Bush is the first President to ever provide funds for embryonic stem cell research.[/i]
Wow, the very FIRST? And here I thought Abraham Lincoln was supposed to be a good man.
George W. Bush is also the first President to have an Ipod, too. Amazing, that.
Feeling "torn"? What Bush did today is indefensibly evil. While he's rounding up his so-called "snowflake babies" as political props, may Bush and his family end up with medical conditions for which a cure is cruelly delayed.
Nice strawmen.
[i] We've been trying to solve Parkinson's and Alzheimer's for some time now. Please feel free to invest in one of the many research companies currently doing stem cell research in this area.
[i] Wow, the very FIRST? And here I thought Bill Clinton had been President for eight years. If I was right and he had been, he surely would have funded embryonic stem cell research, and very heavily. I just know it. However, he was busy not having sex in the Oval Office, I suppose.
No, I'm not feeling "torn" (and I don't really understand the apparent need for quote marks. Are they supposed to be 'scare' quotes?).
I suppose if you're too venal to admit that even adversaries may have beliefs on which they act even if you don't agree with them, then every adversary is evil. as is any potential ally who disagrees with you based on a firmly held belief. Perhaps you should give some thought to whether consistently losing elections is result of having too few allies.
In truth, I am a bit torn but in favor of embryonic stem cell research. I have studied this area on and off (in grad school with two of the pre-eminent policy persons in the US), and for the past almost 20 years it has promised more than it has delivered. Plus, of course, it is in many cases a political prop for the pro-Choice types.
I don't wish for bad things for the above poster and his loved ones since it is apparent that she/he is already being punished by suffering severe brain damage.
Eric,
You know full well that if stem cell research has all the promise we are told, private companies will invest billions of dollars into it.
Just take a look at your Big Dig analysis above to understand why I am skeptical of federal funding, moral issues aside.
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