The Bush administration has approved the first federally funded project using stem cells obtained from fetuses aborted up to eight weeks after conception...
Bush could have stopped this if he wanted to. He could have gone to the DC circuit challenging the law which prohibits him from stopping such funding, and asking for an injunction in the meantime. But he chose to fund this research, because in my opinion he does not really care about the issue of abortion.
There is no such law.
Yes, I read it. It says "the Bush administration", not "President Bush". Could it be that the first line reflects bias from the author? I also read this part, in later paragraphs:
On May 20, the NIH awarded the first funds for research on stem cells from fetuses to the team of stem cell pioneer John Gearhart at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine....[snip]
In another rare step for a relatively small grant application, NIH officials notified the White House staff when Gearhart's proposal was approved, said administration spokesman Scott McClellan.
The approval "was based on long-standing law and guidelines," McClellan said.
It doesn't sound to me as if the President had anything to do with it, other than being notified after the grant had been approved.
You know and I know that any agency in government is now called "the Bush administration", whether or not the President has any actual control over it or not.