Bush Vetos Stem Cell Bill

First and foremost, I said we'd be keeping an eye on the Bush veto situation (President Threatens Veto Of Stem Cell Funding Bill ). Well, about 20 minutes ago President Bush announced that he will in fact veto a recent bill that passed the House and Senate that would provide federal funding to embryonic stem cell research.

First of all, let's look at the importance of this. Not only was this the President's first veto - ever - but this was an important instance of the President standing up to congressional Republicans. The President condemned Congress' demagoguery on this issue, and insisted that he would not make humans a commodity.

Reports WFAA.com:

"This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush said at a White House event where he was surrounded by 18 families who "adopted" frozen embryos that were not used by other couples, and then used those leftover embryos to have children.

"Each of these children was still adopted while still an embryo and has been blessed with a chance to grow, to grow up in a loving family. These boys and girls are not spare parts," he said.

Liberals don't care about embryonic stem cell research because they don't value human life. Embryonic stem cell research involves destroying an embryo, a fertilized human egg, an unborn child. Not only has embryonic stem cell research contributed nothing to science, cured absolutely no deceases, but adult stem cell research, the study of stem cells that are harvested without murdering children, has shown great promise.

Liberals only support embryonic stem cell research for two reasons. One, they see it as an opportunity to make conservatives look bad. It gives them the opportunity to say Why don't conservatives want to heal disease? They would rather please the religious-right than cure cancer and Parkinson's! And two, it further lowers the value of human life, something liberals don't believe in.

This is just another instance of liberals using demagoguery and junk science to further their agenda. They do it with global warming, and now they're doing it with human life. If the US continues on this path it will only be a matter of time before we're just like that liberal utopia; Denmark.