President Bush yesterday lost his veto virginity when he employed his veto power on a stem cell research bill "would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others." The bill would have allowed research on frozen embryos at fertility clinics.
Now before you get all shocked and go "but they could become children!!!", please keep in mind that these embryos are not ever going to become life. They are in storage to help the ladies that put them there become pregnant. "Officials say that about 400,000 frozen embryos are stored at U.S. fertility clinics. The vast majority await disposal because the couples that produced them have completed their pursuit of children and do not want another person to raise their biological child."
Its not like a sperm bank where anyone can make deposits and withdrawal when they want to. The embryos are there for a particular person to use and only that person. If they change their minds, get pregnant, whatever, those embryos get destroyed. The bill proposed doing something useful that will benefit all of humanity and because of the ignorance of the President and a few others, he chose to use his veto power for the first time. Ironically this might the be very first time that Bush stopped something that would have helped his big business interests. Silver lining somewhere right?
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