Also today, we saw President Bush use his first veto of his Presidency on HR 810. In many ways, I believe this issue is indicative of the President's platform; catering only, no matter how egregiously wrong he is, to the religious and extreme right. I've yet to really find anyone who understands his logic on this issue, or even agrees with the idea he panders to the right.

In my view, I don't consider a fertilized egg a child. I simply cannot fathom how the President can consider the use of embryonic stem cells from fertility clinics on the same level as murder. As reported heavily, these embryo's are not slated for use and are to be destroyed. How's that not murder, yet using them for valuable scientific exploration is?

In his absolutely moronic statement to the press, the President surrounded himself by 50+ parents holding their infants who were created with help from fertilization clinics. Personally, I find this incredibly stupid and disingenous. He said "These boys and girls are not spare parts.." and got a standing ovation. Ok, let's focus...

The issue is about using embryo's for science that WERE SLATED TO BE DESTROYED!

An embryo in a petri dish cannot be a child because it cannot survive. It can't outgrow the petri dish and become a baby. It's simply a fertilized egg. A petri dish is not a mother and this is not a moral issue. Calling a fertilized embryo in a lab a "boy or girl" is incredibly backhanded, I think. People like th President that try to vilify science as an attempt to "play God" are a danger to society because they cannot seem to remember the progress society has made to get medicine to where it is thus far. There's no reason science and christianity cannot co-exist. There is a reason, however, that the religous right coexists wonderfully with ignorance.