Stem Cell Vote Waits Until 2006?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Legislation, ScienceLooks like Frist is saying he has to push it back, but Specter is threatening to attach it to a “must-pass spending bill for federal education, labor, health and welfare programs.”
However, Frist has a compromise.
From Wired:
In the deal Frist is floating, Specter would drop his threat in exchange for a stem-cell vote set on a “date certain” in 2006, according to a Senate Republican official who demanded anonymity because negotiations were still taking place.“I could live with that,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a longtime proponent of federal funding for stem-cell research who has grown impatient with the delay. “But it’s important to have a date certain.”
The bill, passed in May by the House, would loosen restrictions that President Bush imposed in 2001 on government-paid research on human embryonic stem cells. The studies are considered promising in the search for cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and Parkinson’s.
And what will Bush do?
But the process destroys the embryo, considered human life by many religious conservatives. Bush has promised to veto the bill because he says taxpayers should not be forced to sponsor such studies.
Just to be clear, this would be the first veto in his presidency.
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