I just had a vent conversation with a friend who lives this issue who makes the point some of us have made here before and will undoubtedly have to again:
Before Bush, there NEVER was ANY federal funding for embryonic stem cell research AT ALL. Far from cutting it off, he was the first to make it available, though he didn’t make it available indiscriminately but rather in a way that comported with the law and with the principle behind the law: that taxpayer funding should not encourage or support the destruction of life.