"Those families who wake up every morning to face another day with a deadly disease or a disability will not forget this decision by the president to stand in the way of sound science and medical research."
-Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.).
Amazing. It’s amazing to me the things that politicos can find it in themselves to say. And that's just one example. Actually, they say some of the things they say because some people are gullible enough (that’s the topic of another post) to believe it without doing a fact check. Stem-cell research, as the President explicitly pointed out yesterday, is not banned. He did not outlaw it yesterday with his first veto. The only thing he did was refuse to allow expanded federal support. (Sidenote: Thank goodness he finally denied federal funding for something!) The federal government has no more business supporting this type of research, where a human embryo is created specifically to be the subject of research, research that requires the destruction of said embryo, anymore than it should be in the business of providing funds for abortions. And please, I don’t want to hear any business about how abortion is a constitutional right (albeit via “emanations and penumbras”); so is owning a gun, but no one is demanding Uncle Sam buy him/her a gun. The more promising the research, the more funding, PRIVATE funding, it will attract. The market takes care of these things. Taxpayers only stand to lose when Congress jumps in to fund something they deem worthy of more than the private sector is providing.
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