[extropy-chat] Fwd: [TransAct] [Fwd: [wta-politics] Bush Signals Tougher Embryo Research Limits]

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> The US administration's attitude toward any research
> involving humon
> embryos is apparently not limited to lack of federal
> funding for same.
>   Note the "rogue scientists" part below.    Double
> plus not good.

True, but...

> Supporters of stem cell research in both the House
> and the Senate have
> said they have majorities to move ahead with
> legislation that would
> specifically authorize federal funding of the
> research, which doctors
> say has the potential to transform medicine.

That's the important part.  Bush will have a tough
time outlawing this research without Congress, and
Congress doesn't seem to be bowing to the neo-Luddites
here.

BTW, in light of the contamination that's been
discovered, would it be fair to call Bush's policy
"Mickey Mouse stem cells"?  ;)