[Mishmash] Explain please!

[Hugh Gigante]

There is no reason to veto the bill . . . except one. What strict religious constructionists will always say is that, because nobody can identify a point where an embryo truly becomes viable (remember, that point has moved earlier and earlier as medicine has advanced), the only valid position is that all are. Go back just 25-30 years and babies born at 4-5 months were pretty much not going to make it, and now they routinely due.

That same group will also say those embryos were not "discarded", but murdered by the process.

While I don't agree with Bush's position, its a nice change to have a president with convictions that last more than the latest polls.

Hugh
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: GALEHALLOCK at aol.com 
  To: mishmash at mishmash.net 
  Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:31 PM
  Subject: [Mishmash] Explain please!


  Can someone on this list please explain to me the moral virtue of the President vetoing the bill for Stem Cell Research.  I hate thinking his reasons are that God will send him to hell without an electric fan is he signs it into law.  Is there some trap door to this being made into law that I haven't caught on to?  The benefits seem to have a very high ceiling.  And there are also other discoveries that science hasn't even thought of that come from these things too.  I try to be open minded, but I don't want a veto on religious grounds.  Let Iran do that.  The answer should be right or wrong for the country.   Not heaven or hell.

  Gale





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