I'm sure I couldn't support everything GW does, but on the issue you raised, I didn't have a problem with his decision. One, because the embryo is already dead and Two, because the issue gave him the ability to draw a line in the sand with regard to the government's sanctioning via money for research, i.e. no money towards producing embryos for the purpose of killing them for research.
Not only does the president have to muster the moral conscience of America from the brainwashing of the nineties, but he must also muster the political clout to remain in office to do it. The way he handled this situation did both in my opinion.
Poor comparison. I dissected cadavers in med school.
I never experimented on the living tissues of human's created only in order to be destroyed, to harvest their living tissues. No one in cadaver lab was dissecting a body conceived and grown only to be dissected.
To cause a human life to begin only to be used for science/profit is a crime that cries out to God for vengence, alongside all the others of the last century.
How much longer Lord?
--Dr. Kopp
Please illustrate this "line in the sand." There is none.
A pro-life leader would be championing the ban on fetal stem cell research even by the private sector. Banning fed funding knowing damn well the real problem lies with the private sector is a cowards way of trying to look pro-life.
I have held my tongue on FSCR up till now. I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was about Bush's decision that was unsettling. Now, after 9/11/01, it all stands out in bass relief.
Why should God Bless America, as we create human beings purely for destrucxtion and profit?
Why should God Bless America, as we kill the child in the womb?
Why should God Bless America, as we tolerate the advance of the homosexual agenda?
Why should God Bless America, as we ignore the roots of it all, the grave sin of contraception (especially abortifacient contraception, including the pill and all other hormonal contraceptives)?
God will not Bless America, when we pray for Blessing with our mouth while murdering the innocents with out hands and our votes.
9/11/01 was a warning. No one is heading it.
Worse shall come.