Bush Cares More About Embryos Thanvictims of This War

Evening Standard - London › July 21, 2006

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GEORGEBUSH is a very strange man. One of the images of him which will stay with me forever is Wednesday's press conference, summoned to explain why he has vetoed a bill that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

There are probably millions of people throughout the world, myself among them, who believe that this is an important issue. You do not have to belong to the neo-con religious Right to feel a little queasy at the prospect of "research" being conducted upon embryos which, if they grew to full term, would have turned into babies.

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Bush Cares More About Embryos Thanvictims of This War

It is another matter whether the debate is helped by Bush's crude device of having his press conference surrounded by just such babies whose parents had "adopted" frozen embryos and allowed them to develop into c...

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