Five-and-a-half years into his presidency, George W. Bush has ended his record stretch of bill-signings as he rejected legislation Wednesday that would expand federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research.
Attempts in Congress to override the veto, which would require a two-thirds vote, were expected to fail.... The president believes the killing of human embryos, from which stem cells are harvested, is murder, says press secretary Tony Snow. - Christian Science Monitor
Yesterday Snow commented:
What the President has said is that he doesn't want human life destroyed. Now, you may consider that insignificant, but the President has said -- and you have had in a number of cases the Snowflake babies, where some of those fetuses have, in fact, been brought to term and have become human beings. The President believes strongly that for the purpose of research it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder; he's one of them.
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