Embryonic Veto

President Bush has threatened to veto a bill passed by both House and Senate dealing with stem-cell research. It is clear the President’s agenda is not congruent with the American peoples', who have elected the officials in Congress to represent the voter’s views.

The type of research discussed in the bill would include using embryos that would have previously been discarded after they were not used for couples using fertility treatments in order to conceive. It is reported that only 10 percent of these embryos are further used.

One of the Representatives who co-sponsored the bill has a close, personal reason for the bill to pass.

"What could be more pro-life than working for a cure for a loved one?" asked Rep. James Langevin, a Rhode Island Democrat, another of the bill's 200 co-sponsors, who suffered a spinal cord injury at age 16 and cannot walk.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan is an advocate for such research after losing former President Reagan to Alzheimer’s, and since recent Republican Presidential debates have seemed to dub the former President as the poster child for the Republican party, it seems there might be more of a following from the GOP.

Only 590 days left until Bush leaves office.