>>Exactly! Anyone who has (or has ever been close to anyone with) Parkinson's or Alzheimer's diseases or a spinal cord injury should be writing a letter to every twit who voted against this. For that matter anyone with diabetes should get a pen out too. Heck the more I think about it, the longer this list gets.
>>I don't understand it. What kind of religious nutjob would rather see a bunch of living crippled, impaired, miserable people running around than to simply allow some research on embryos? Those who voted against this are the least-caring humans in our country!
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>Why do humans have to be killed to research crippling diseases? As far as I know, stem cells have a bright future, but there are other sources of stem cells, apart from embryos.

Who said anything about "humans having to be killed"? Only GWBush, who evidently does not know much about the technology, or only what he wants to hear.

What Congress was talking about, and voted on (and was vetoed) was on using stem cells from discarded embryos, you know, the ones that are going to be thrown into the trash anyway.