President Bush to Veto Stem Cell Bill

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President Bush means a lot of things to a lot of people. Some people can’t stand his name, others just think that he isn’t doing the best job he can do. And yet still some people adore him and the ground that he walks on. I once thought that he was a great leader among men for his simple, down-home style. I’ve grown to see him as a stale leader whose style is good for comforting Americans, but not so great for making major decisions that will effect the future of this country.

That being said, President Bush will be vetoing a stem cell bill that would “expand” research in this critical area of medicine. I put expand in parenthesis because the function of this bill is debatable. The Democrats see it as expansion of research because it will allow more federal tax dollars to flow to organizations that will be researching ways to put stem cells to use for today’s needs. The Republicans claim that these organizations may destroy embryos to harvest stem cells, thus destroying new life to save existing life.

Personally, I think that the government should be back-handedly funding this type of stuff. For example, maybe we shouldn’t increase direct aid to these organizations, but we should be making it easier for these groups to raise and use research and development dollars so they can privately fund their own stem cell research. See, this is something that is constantly left out of the stem cell debate. There IS stem cell research going on right now that is privately funded by research organizations. Adding federal funding to their existing bin of money might be redundant.

I do believe, though, that the government should help them expand that bin of money that they are using.

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