WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
Veto Is His Second Of Stem Cell Legislation During Presidency
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Play CBS Video Video Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill After vetoing a stem cell research bill, President Bush issued an executive order directing the government to take its research in a new direction. Susan Roberts reports.
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President Bush speaks about embryonic stem cell research, Wednesday, June 20, 2007, in the East Room at the White House. (AP)
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If the measure President Bush vetoed would have become law, the White House said it would have compelled taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. (CBS)
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President Bush embraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Tuesday's congressional picnic. A day later he rejected Congress' Democratic-led stem cell legislation. (AP)
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Bush announced no new federal dollars for stem cell research, which supporters say holds the promise of disease cures, and his order would not allow researchers to do anything they couldn't do under existing restrictions.
Announcing his veto to a roomful of supporters, Bush said, “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. I made it clear to Congress and to the American people that I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line.”
He vetoed similar embryonic stem cell legislation last July.
His executive order encourages scientists to work with the government to add other kinds of stem cell research to the list of projects eligible for federal funding — so long as it does not create, harm or destroy human embryos.
Democrats, focusing on the potential for cures or treatments of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases, made the embryonic stem cell legislation a priority when they took control of the House and Senate in January.
“President Bush won't listen to the more than 500 leading organizations who support the bill including AARP, the American Medical Association and the American Diabetes Association, just to name a few,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
“President Bush won't listen to the 80 Nobel laureates or his own director of the National Institutes of Health, who all support embryonic stem cell research. Most importantly, President Bush won't listen to the overwhelming majority of Americans who call out for stem cell research.”
Reid said he would schedule an override vote “very, very quickly,” but not until Wyoming selects a temporary replacement for Republican Sen. Craig Thomas, who died two weeks ago. Democrats do not have enough votes to override Bush's veto.
The stem cell issue has weighty political and ethical implications. Public opinion polls show strong support for the research, and it could return as an issue in the 2008 elections.
Republican presidential hopefuls are split on the scope of federal involvement in embryonic stem cell research. Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have broken with Bush — and the GOP's social conservatives — in backing the expansion of federal funding for such research. At the Republican debate May 3, Giuliani said he supports such an expansion with limits, “as long as we're not creating life in order to destroy it, as long as we're not having human cloning.”
Rivals Mitt Romney and Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas oppose the expansion. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney tried to stop legislation that encouraged expanded embryonic stem cell research. His veto was overturned.
Most of the Democratic candidates have urged Bush to expand the research.
The president is “deferring the hopes of millions of Americans who do not have the time to keep waiting for the cure that may save or extend lives,” Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, R-N.Y., said if she is elected president, she will lift restrictions on stem cell research.
“This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families,” she said.
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See all 600 CommentsIm getting used to your off topic tyrades of disgusting puke.
Why do you post this aryan brotherhood claptrap on a string for stem cell research?
Ill take the simplest answer to be that you dont care what the topic is, as long as you get to insult everything that condemns white supremacy.
They dont need embryo's.
Adapted from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Embryonic stem cells are unique because they can develop into virtually any kind of tissue type, an attribute called pluripotency. Somatic cell nuclear transfer (%u201Ctherapeutic cloning%u201D) offers the hope of one day creating customized embryonic stem cells with a patient%u2019s own DNA. Here, an individual%u2019s DNA would be placed into an egg, resulting in a blastocyst that houses a supply of stem cells. But to access these cells, researchers must destroy a viable embryo.
Now, scientists at Whitehead Institute have demonstrated that embryonic stem cells can be created without eggs. By genetically manipulating mature skin cells taken from a mouse, the scientists have transformed these cells back into a pluripotent state, one that appears identical to an embryonic stem cell in every way. No eggs were used, and no embryos destroyed.
%u201CThese reprogrammed cells, by all criteria that we can apply, are indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells,%u201D says Whitehead Member and MIT professor of biology Rudolf Jaenisch, senior author of the paper that will appear online June 6, 2007 in Nature.
http://www.stemcellresearchfoundation.org/WhatsNew/June_2007.html#1
Posted by infidel_us at 12:25 PM : Jun 21, 2007
They will say yes. It's funny, they demonize the one channel that really does have fair reporting. They don't want to know the real truth on anything.
Posted by parrot2 at 10:24 AM : Jun 21, 2007
Your choice, don't really care what it is. There are always two sides to every story though, don't you owe it to yourself to learn them both?
"6-21-07 MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties."
86% of the media supports dems. Do you all really think you get fair reporting???
Posted by MCVet at 11:36 AM : Jun 21, 2007
ROFLMAO....it must hurt.....LOL....going through life.....ROFL.....as a complete.....LOL.....imbicile......ROFLMFAO! :)
Better hurry....you'll miss your soaps and Oprah!
Posted by infidel_us at 11:29 AM : Jun 21, 2007
Oh come on!! You have to do better than that! Didn't you get involved at the last session at your Nazi Youth Camp? ROFLMAO But then when was the FIRST time you clowns supported ONE of our rights, especially the one about Freedom of Speech! ROFLMAO Sieg Heil Bush!!
It's bad enough we have to fund NPR.....I do not want my tax dollars going to this cause. If I wanted to fund it, I would buy stock in companies that engauge in the research.
Posted by infidel_us at 11:05 AM : Jun 21, 2007
Who are YOU to determine what is or is not the role of our Government. That Governments role is whatever "We the People" want it to be. Now I know that's a hard thing for you Fascist to understand, being that you are so "Superior" but that's the Constitution. Sieg Heil Bush!!
Posted by MCVet at 11:25 AM : Jun 21, 2007
Too bad there couldn't have been just one more abortion. The best part of this *** dribled down the crack of his mom's arse.
Posted by singinrick at 10:48 AM : Jun 21, 2007
The AMERICAN TALIBAN Speaks!! ROFLMAO Here are people who just a few decades ago was out there with their hoods and sheets telling us that Blacks were Inferior and should be "Equal but Different" because that was "God's Will". Now they are PRETENDING to be so Moral. It just makes you sick. I am all for these low life pieces of Human Garbage believing what they want but I sure am NOT going to allow them to dictate what our scientist do based on what THEY think God does or does not do. They have NO creditability and shouldn't be listened to PERIOD! The Religious Reich has NEVER in the history of this nation been right, NOT ONCE about such things. Sieg Heil and Amen.
Thanks kindly for this answer. But I prefer to ignore assertions like yours (and the opposite assertions) and to focus on action. As I said originally, doctors emplant embryos and women have them emplanted in the scientific certainty that they will, barring spontaneous abortion, result in childbirth. I'm forced to conclude that the embryo is a human life in its earliest stage (but a sperm is not, an egg is not). I think this view will be confirmed when medicine finds a way of supplying the embryo with the nutrients it needs to develop outside the womb (extra-uterine birth is theoretically possible only if everything needed for human life except nutrition is already present in the embryo, isn't it?).
These embryos aren't being "planted" for experimentation, they're being planted so that otherwise childless couples can have children.
The process brings life into the world that otherwise would not exist.
Is it any wonder why people have no respect for life, anymore???
Posted by infidel_us at 11:21 AM : Jun 21, 2007
+ report abuse
ROFLMAO Right! You Nazi's can't even LIE anymore... ROFLMAO Do you honestly BELIEVE anyone with a brain out here believes you One Party Rule Nazi's anymore? You know your "Blame your problems on Liberal's" line just isn't working anymore? But then I guess when you are so stupid that you are a Fascist, you can't really come up with anything on your own can you. ROFLMAO Sieg Heil Bush!!!
That's exactly why this whole process is so appalling. The "shotgun" approach to creating human life. It is the epitome of selfishness.
It's like a horrible science fiction movie. Libs are a pathetic bunch. Partial birth abortions are ok. Growing humans for experimental research, that's ok.
Is it any wonder why people have no respect for life, anymore???
The invitro process involves removing eggs from the woman's uterus and devloping them further before placing them back in the uterus where the process of birth continues.This is done for couples who've had difficulty conceiving naturally.
Because the exact number of eggs needed to produce an embryo for reimplantation cannot be accurately predicted, the process often results in more embryos than can be safely accomodated by the woman's womb, as it is, most invitro pregnancies result in multiple births.
That's why these embryos end up being frozen, because they can't be immediately brought to term.
The only way that these embryos will develop into fetuses and be born is if:1)The couples decide to have more children. If the couples don't act fairly quickly, the frozen embryos become less viable. If the couples were to allow others to take these embryos and attempt to carry them the chance of success would probably be very iffy because they weren't their eggs/sperm/genes.
If the invitro process which resulted in these embryos was never conducted,these eggs would've been passed and not resulted in life.
The only way these embryos can become human beings is if the couple turns right around and repeats the process before the embryos become not viable. Not practical and maybe not even possible.
As far as I can tell, no frozen embryo has been used later and resulted in a successful birth.
It's bad enough we have to fund NPR.....I do not want my tax dollars going to this cause. If I wanted to fund it, I would buy stock in companies that engauge in the research.
Posted by singinrick at 10:36 AM : Jun 21, 2007"
Better than save blastocysts, send them as cannon meat to Iraq 20 years later.
katg... no one is saying abandon other lines of research that is promising... but one has to remember one of the reasons for embryonic stem cells have not produced results is that research on these lines were stopped before the state of the art really improve enough to make them robust
and now I must leave this discussion time is pressing
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