stem cell research

Written by: Aaron M. Watkins (amwphilos)

President George W. Bush announced yesterday that he was to veto a bill allocating federal funds for stem cell research. This being the third bill passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate that Bush has vetoed, it comes a year after an almost identical bill was considered.
The Senate just barely lacks the two thirds majority to contest Bush's veto, but the House is well under the two thirds majority meaning the veto is not likely to be overridden.

As usual, Bush makes little to no sense when citing his reasons behind the veto. In a message to the House of Representatives, released yesterday (June 19, 2007) on the White House's website, Bush writes, "Under the policy I announced 5 years ago, my Administration became the first to make Federal funds available for this research, but only on embryonic stem cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed."