For the second time this year the House voted to expand stem cell research allowing the National Institutes of Health ( NIH) to fund research on hundreds of newer and better embryonic stem cell lines. In the past 6 years, NIH funding was permitted only for research on 11 old, Bush approved pre-2001 embryonic stem cell lines.
Bush had cruelly crushed the hopes of over 100 million americans who are suffering from debilitating and deadly medical conditions, by issueing an executive order in 2001 limiting NIH funding to what he believed were over 70 stem cell lines which had been created up until then.
Like the claimed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush's 70 stem cell lines however proved non-existent save for 22 stem cell lines identified by the NIH in 2003, of which only 11 turned out to be somewhat useful for research.
Thus Bush's weapons of mass deception where famously employed in the carefully crafted "balanced" approach which was billed as allowing some embryonic stem cell research, while discouraging any future "destruction" of embryos.
Today, he took time away from his G-8 meetings to give us another cruel "moral" lesson on the science of embryonic stem cell research.
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