Bush: Children Are Not Spare Parts

Bush finally uses his veto, for a very noble cause:

President Bush yesterday vetoed the first bill of his presidency, rejecting an attempt to overturn his limits on federal support for embryonic-stem-cell research and criticizing opponents in Congress who blocked an alternative measure that would have funded nonembryonic-stem-cell research... "If this bill would have 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," Mr. Bush said, drawing a standing ovation from supporters in the White House East Room. He stood in front of a group of parents holding babies that they had adopted as frozen embryos and then had them carried to term. "These boys and girls are not spare parts," Mr. Bush said. "They remind us that we all begin our lives as a small collection of cells. And they remind us that in our zeal for new treatments and cures, America must never abandon our fundamental morals."

Modern research scientists seem to be taking over where the Nazi body banks left off in WW 2.