>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."

I'm often thinking of this from a different angle. The stem cell research is the next best thing since sliced bread (which, the sliced bread I mean, wasn't such a good idea anyway). Now if it was funded with tax money, it'd be in the commons, not a proprietary patentable intellectual property. If it stays out of the commons...

Imagine a company claiming the reproduction rights of your child, because it's discovered that its genetic makeup is somehow copyrighted. They may end up owning your genes. Read Greg Egan.