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President Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Funding Bill
Dateline Washington, DC - July 19, 2006
Using the first veto of in his five and a half years
as President, George W. Bush today killed a bill which
would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem
cell research. Flagged by a number of families with
adopted stem cell children, who have recently been
referred to as "snowflakes", Bush spoke to supporters
just before the action this afternoon.
"Each of these children began his or her life as a
frozen embryo...Each of these children were adopted while
they were still an embryo...These boys and girls are not
spare parts," Bush said to a standing ovation from
onlookers in the East Wing, "They remind us that we all
begin our life as a small collection of cells...and they
remind us that we should not abandon our fundamental
morals..."
Which fundamental morals would those be? Bush elaborated.
"Each embryo that we destroy for use in embryonic stem
cell research robs us of the opportunity to bring
forth another child. A child that could grow up in a
family, and could, quite possibly, one day become yet
another solider to fight against Al-Qaeda and Hezballah.
That could one day give their life to fight in the War
on Terror. So you see, supporting embryonic stem cell
research helps the terrorists. It makes them stronger,
and makes us weaker. So I vetoed the bill. Thank you,
and God bless America."
He also gave nod to Senators Rick Santorum, and Sam
Brownback, vehement opposers of the research, and authors
of the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, which aims to bring
an end to the act of fetus farming for scientific research.
"I thank the President for using his veto powers on
this bill," Santorum said in remarks after the press
conference, "In the future, I hope to present even more
images drawn by 3rd grade students to drive home my points
on the Senate floor. Really, I don't see why the American
public does not understand this issue, as I do, and as
the 3rd grade students I have talked to around my home
state do."*
Indeed, I know I will sleep morally sound tonight, knowing
that our President and elected representatives, take their
keys on domestic science policy from 3rd graders.
For WNN this is Fingerpainting Onthesenatefloor reporting.
* - no shit. Santorum actually used a flipchart of images
drawn by a 3rd grader to prove that life begins at
conception...the video is out there on the web.
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