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 ssuming
that reports are accurate that President Bush will endorse federal
funding for limited embryonic stem-cell research tonight, his pro-life
supporters will be bitterly disappointed — and have good cause
to be.
Since the
Hyde Amendment over 20-years ago, and throughout both Democratic-
and Republican-controlled congresses, there has been a strict prohibition
on federal funding of the destruction of the earliest forms of life.
Now, thanks to Bush, this fire-wall has been breached. Another abortion-funding
issue that might now, logically, be jeopardized is the Mexico City
policy which prohibits funding of international organizations that
perform or promote abortions, which Bush supports and which the
House narrowly upheld in May (218-210).
It is important
to remember that the deep-pocketed bio-tech industry could carry
on embryonic stem-cell research with or without federal funding.
They want the federal funds only as a moral stamp of approval. Bush,
to his discredit, has just bestowed it on them.
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