This type of research is part of the future of science. I wouldn't want to hamstring our scientists in the face of increasing competition from South Korea, China, and other nations.
China also kills prisoners to harvest their organs, and doesn't kill the prisoner until the very end, because they want the organs to be fresh. So the prisoner KNOWS what's going to happen, and is left frightened until the end.
China was first with killing prisoners for body parts.
Nothing that Bush has done or will do (veto the bill) will prevent any scientist from doing whatever they want with embryonic stem cells.
All Bush is doing is preventing federal funding of embryonic stem cells.
Federal funding means your money & my money.
If embryonic stem cells are such a great scientific advance, why are there not dozens of biotech companies throwing billions of dollars at it?
If there are dozens of biotech companies already throwing billions of dollars at it, why do some insist that my money & your money also fund it?
Yeah, I can see where letting them kill more human babies then we do would be an impediment to our development./sarcasm. The truth is adult stem cells have actually produced benefits where as embryo stem cells have only accomplished the deaths of human babies. You do know that an human embryo is a baby right?
FDR should have funnelled money to Mengele, then Joe wouldn't have been hamstrung in his research.
"This type of research is ..." Cannibalism. Stem cells ripped from embryo-aged human organisms for experiments and treatments is as surely cannibalism as it would be if the embryos were placed on crackers and serve for snacks. If the world wants to live by cannibalism, is that the best reason to embrace such wrong in America? If the world were seen to be committing suicide by bioengineering in search (only search mind you) of immortality, would that prompt America to follow suit?
Mengele was doing good research, too. And after all, those twins were going to die anyway.