President Bush will again veto a bill to subsidize stem cell research using human embryos, but would sign an alternative that permits public funding for studies on embryos incapable of developing into fetuses, the White House said Tuesday.
Both bills are moving toward a Senate vote this week with a debate over a budding science that some researchers say could cure diseases that afflict millions of people.
The bill Bush opposes, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would lift the president's 2001 ban on federal funding for any new embryonic stem cell studies.
What does this mean? Permits funding for studies on embryos incapable of developing into fetuses? Either you take the stance that all embryos have fetus potential, or they do not. If you say they will be used for stem cell research, by default they become incapable of developing into fetuses. If you say they have souls and could be impregnated in a woman, then they can develop into fetuses.
There is a lot of politics to read into this, but I think the simplest and probably correct answer is to conclude that Bush has no clue what he is doing and no matter what wants to attack Democrats.
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