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Sorry that this is so long, I am just really upset about this. I really dont care if you agree with me.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these fringe republican evangelical christians, like his highness Mr. Bush? Before I really get into it I need to mention that Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 to not veto a single bill that congress has sent to his desk. But Garfield had an excuse: he was assassinated after just 6 months in office. Before him, the last full term president to not veto a single bill was John Quincy Adams, the 6^th president in 1829. So if you do that math, that is 177 years since a full term president has not used his veto power. Why does this matter? Because it looks like Bush is finally about to actually veto something! [edithe did just veto something] Is it a ghastly defense appropriations bill that will put us even further into debt? Is it a bill that will severely cut spending on social services like Medicaid? Is it a bill that will give ridiculous amounts of power to the executive branch and take away the civil liberties of Americans? OF COURSE NOT!!! He signed all of those and around 1500 other bills from the republican dominated congress into law during his presidency.

So what bill is Bushs first veto in 6 years? One that allows the science community to research embryonic stem cells harvested from leftover fertilization clinic embryos. It is research that is supported by nearly 70f Americans. Research that could lead to cures for diabetes, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and to rebuild lost spinal tissue.

So why would mr. bush veto this bill? Because he, and the small section of the country that still thinks he is doing a good job think that because these embryos have the potential to become a human life, that using them for research is murder. This is complete nonsense. First of all, completely ignoring the moral justifications, they are leftover embryos that will basically be thrown in the garbage otherwise. The bill basically allows fertility clients to donate unused frozen embryos instead of letting them just be destroyed. What the hell is wrong with that?  Literally 100’s of thousands of these frozen embryos will be disgarded this year alone.  It is medical waste for pete’s sake!

“This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others,” Bush said at the press conference. “It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. So I vetoed it.” He also said this, “If this bill were to become law, American taxpayers would, for the first time in our history, be compelled to fund the deliberate destruction of human embryos, and I’m not going to allow it.” Bull!! Think about this. This same man believes that if a leader of a country is evil and doing harm to his people, it is morally justified for us to bomb that persons country in order to possibly end suffering. When engaged in the bombing of a country it is common and accepted knowledge that some innocent people will be placed in harms way and lose there life unnecessarily. But this is accepted because the greater aim of eliminating evil and suffering is greater than the loss of life in the attempt of gain victory. In doing, there is no guarantee that peace will be achieved or that suffering will end. So how can you say that those human lives are not important because we are ending suffering but say that researching cures for horrible diseases that are killing thousands of innocent people with the hopes of ending suffering is wrong because we are killing the potential for human life. For gods sake, we kill actually human beings everyday in our wars, but we cannot use discarded embryos to possibly cure the worst diseases that we know? That is murder?

An embryo at the stage that we are discussing is not a human being. Yes, it is life, but there is a difference between life and being a human being. At this stage, the cells can become literally any other human cell. They could become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, any other cells! Can a human being become any other thing that it wants to? Of course not. They are not human life and no one can honestly say that a cell at that stage is the same as a new born baby. You cant honestly say that they have the same value. Life isnt always equal to life. It isnt black and white. Be honest about this. Say you are in a fertility clinic and it suddenly begins to rage in flames. Everyone in the building leaves but somehow a 3 month old child is left behind in the back. You rush in realizing you have very little time. You know that there is a storage container in the back with 20,000 frozen embryos waiting for the chance to make someone pregnant with a child. What would you do? You have the chance to save a potential 20,000 babies!! Or do you save the 3 month old that is screaming in the back? You only have time to do one or the other. What would you do?

You are lying if you would save the frozen embryos instead of the living breathing human baby, because you know that they are NOT the same thing. They are destroyed every day in the name of the science of fertilization. Why not give someone the chance to donate what they do not use to the science of stem cell research? This isnt the same issue as abortion. Stop making them the same thing. We are talking about the earliest human cells, cells that are not yet defined as a liver or and heart of a lung. They are full of unlimited potential and should not be wasted.

Oh, and according to press secretary Tony Snow, “There is nothing that makes embryonic stem cell research illegal; it simply says that the federal government will not finance it. As you know, there are ongoing efforts in some states, including, I think, California and Massachusetts, to use state money for it, and I daresay if people think that there’s a market for it, they’re going to support it handsomely. The simple answer is [Bush] thinks murder is wrong, and he has said it.”  It’s funny that Bush is so adamant about this being murder, yet he agrees that it isn’t illegal and that allowing stem cell research to be performed privately is ok, just not using federal funding.  So murder is legal as long as the government isn’t funding it.  The government only gets to do that when we are war mongering or using the death penalty.  That’s awesome!!!