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To: Pyro7480

His veto did not ban embryonic stem cell research, but rather maintained his restrictions on federal funding of such. This action by the FDA deals not with federal funding, nor with newly approving a drug but with the level of doctor prescription required for an already legal drug. If the FDA runs every such decision by the president, then that would be micromanagement nearly on the same ridiculous level as Jimmy Carter overseeing the schedules of the White House tennis courts. The knee-jerk reaction to this decision, and hyperbolizing it as "Bush abandons social conservatives", is unbecoming.


37 posted on 08/24/2006 7:42:28 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
The knee-jerk reaction to this decision, and hyperbolizing it as "Bush abandons social conservatives", is unbecoming.

It isn't knee-jerk at all. Social conservatives advised President Bush a while ago to withdraw his nomination of Dr. von Eschenbach as the commissioner of the FDA for this very reason.

40 posted on 08/24/2006 7:45:46 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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