Dark Ages

[logisticslad]

Bush used his first Presidential Veto to nix a bill to lift some restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. There were not enough votes in the House to override the veto, so policy stays as it is. That means that a very small number of pre-existing embryonic stem cells remain available for research use if supported by govt funds, which is not a scientifically viable situation. The worst part is that he vetoed it on moral grounds - what happened to separation of church and state?

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[robdamnit.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else find it odd that the morality of denying potential treatments and cures to millions of thinking breathing feeling people suffering from debilitating and terminal diseases now and in the future is somehow dismissed as liberal blaspheming while the championing of the rights of a glob of cells (“embryonic stem cells”; embryos, not fetuses, but then this is Prezeedent Nookewler so why do I bother?) is hailed as an anointed cause blessed by the almighty and smiled upon by the ghosts of all our forefathers?