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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55
Actually, California is taking the lead in state funding of this form of research and also, private funding is becoming more available.
With NIH budget being reduced (see money going to fund the continuing disaster in Iraq), and recent polls showing 70% in favor of this research, Bush has indeed drawn his "line in the sand".
Senator Harkin said it best today, "He's the president, nobody elected him to be the Pope or Ayotollah".
From my point of view, I certainly don't need him making "moral decisions" on my behalf.
If human life is so precious to him, how come the continuing deaths in many places don't hold equal weight as stage eight mitosis frozen embryos?
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For that matter, why isn't he campaigning to shut down fertility clinics, since they lead directly to the "death" of thousands of embryos every year? In fact, I believe that's where most of the embryos used in research come from-- people sign over their discarded embryos to research. So he prefers that we permit fertility clinics to continute creating thousands of "lives" that will be "murdered" by disposal, but doesn't favor donating them to research? Seems less like standing up for one's beliefs and more like hypocritical behavior, doesn't it? Oh wait, this IS Bush...
For that matter, why does anyone who thinks life begins at conception think fertility clinics are acceptable? Why aren't they out protesting them and threatening the people who go to them?