WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush used his veto power Wednesday for the first time since taking office 5 1/2 years ago, saying that an embryonic stem-cell research bill "crossed a moral boundary."
Well, good for Bush! Though, it's a mystery to me why he doesn't feel that torture, murder, and unjustified war doesn't cross some moral boundary.
Attending the White House event were a group of families with children who were born from "adopted" frozen embryos that had been left unused at fertility clinics.
"These boys and girls are not spare parts," he said of the children in the audience. "They remind us of what is lost when embryos are destroyed in the name of research. They remind us that we all begin our lives as a small collection of cells."
And Bush, whenever he talks, reminds us that, when we approach the end our lives, our brains return to a small collection of cells. Some smaller than others.
Bush and the totally crazy whack jobs on the "religious" right would rather see 399 thousand frozen embryos thrown into dumpsters than cross the moral line of saving thousands--maybe millions--of unfrozen lives.
Because, like, maybe a hundred people might "adopt" some microscopic cells.
Once again, your Gee Oh Pee gubment working for you.
Bush said, "If this bill were to become law, American taxpayers would, for the first time in our history, be compelled to fund the deliberate destruction of human embryos, and I'm not going to allow it."
Though, the guy has no problem with compelling American taxpayers to fund the deliberate destruction of fully formed humans.
Whatever.
Good for Bush. Way to use that veto finally.
Because, frankly, I think the only other time the Bush administration threatened to veto anything was a bunch of anti-terrorism funding.
On September 9th.
2001.
You what would have been cool? If Bush had let it go through and those stem cells had been used to make a disabled war veteran whole again. Nah, that would have been too much good.
Posted by: Peacechick Mary | July 20, 2006 at 07:23 AM