>Tony Snow on bush's stated goal of vetoing the stem cell bill:
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>"The simple answer is he thinks murder's wrong," said White House spokesman Tony Snow. "The president is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something living and making it dead for the purposes of scientific research."
The problem is, one common origin of stem cells is human embryos, i.e. human beings. The controversy is mentioned at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cells#Controversy_surrounding_stem_cell_researchOn the other hand, in theory a stem cell is any cell that hasn't sufficiently specialized. I hope the politicians are not overlooking the possibility of other non-specialized cells to be used as stem cells.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
