Posted on 06/10/2007 6:45:10 PM PDT by monomaniac
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that the House has approved the bill that forces taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research that involves the destruction of human life, the bill heads to President Bush. The president has vowed to veto it and pro-life members of Congress have pledged to uphold his veto. Last week, the president issued a statement following the House vote indicating he will assuredly veto the legislation.
"If this bill were to become law, American taxpayers would for the first time in our history be compelled to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. Crossing that line would be a grave mistake. For that reason, I will veto the bill," he said.
It may be up to the pro-life members of the House of Representatives to sustain the veto and that's something Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, is confident will happen.
"President Bush has given us his commitment that he will veto this misguided legislation as he has done in the past. I am confident that we will once again have the numbers to sustain his veto in the House," he told LifeNews.com.
The numbers are on Smith's side as the House was 35 votes short of the two-thirds needed to override Bush's veto when it approved the measure on Thursday.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said during a news conference last week that he is "very confident that we have the votes to uphold the president's veto."
Rep. Joe Pitts also commented on the lack of votes, telling CNS News, the bill is "another example of legislation that Democrats are bringing to the floor knowing it will not become law."
Following Bush's veto the Senate will be the first chamber to attempt to override it.
The Senate approved the bill with 63 votes, short of the two-thirds needed to override an expected veto. However, three senators who supported the bill were not present for the vote, including South Dakota Democrat Tim Johnson who was hospitalized at the time.
In addition, pro-life Sen. Craig Thomas of Wyoming recently passed away and his death will also alter the outcome and increase the odds that backers of the bill can get the two-thirds they need to override.
President Bush used the first and only veto of his presidency in turning back the first bill the Congress sent to him mandating that the American people fund the destruction of human life through embryonic stem cell research.
If Congress is unable to override President Bush's veto, it will be the second time President Bush has protected Americans from funding the destruction of human life.
To give him credit, President Bush has been very reliable on the right to life.
On his first day in office, he signed an Executive Order reinstating President Reagan’s Mexico City Policy, which outlawed using tax money to pay for foreign abortions. Clinton had reversed the Reagan policy in an EO signed on HIS first day in office.
And President Bush has been reliable on life issues all through his tenure of office. It was a major reason why he did well in 2000, 2002, and 2004.
First veto? Yes. Only veto? No. He also vetoed the Timeline Funding bill. (whatever it was called)
President Bush has been as good on the life issue as he has bad on the illegal immigration issue. An enigma wrapped in a hot dog roll inside a New York hot dog stand.
My understanding is that stem cells are produced by bone marrow, can someone tell my why we don’t use that source instead?
Yes. This is an indirect effort to legitimize abortion. Therefore only fetal stem cells are acceptable to these people.
In the Culture of Death one thing leads to another. Abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human cloning, fetal stem cell research, and so forth.
What was it that Pelosi said - "the most moral and ethical Congress ever," or something to that effect?
The news media are almost universally pro-abortion, unlike the country as a whole. That is true even of some otherwise conservative newspapers. They have a policy of confusing the voters by saying “stem cell” when what they are really talking about is “fetal stem cell,” and so forth.
Unless people are in touch with pro-life news sources, the truth about these distinctions is buried.
Quite a lot about fetal and adult stem cell research is posted here on FR by Coleus and others, but that is quite unusual.
Pro-life organizations have managed to educate the people of this country, so that opposition to abortion has increased over the years, but it is an uphill battle with the media fighting tooth and nail to preserve “a woman’s constitutional right to choose.”
I have my differences with the President but on this he has done well.
That's good to hear.
Now imagine if the President stood in front of the camera and responded to them by pointing out that choice, that fetal stem cells aren't the only game in town, and smacked them upside the head for pushing the unnecessary fatal fetal option.
I certainly wish he would.
Bush’s stand on life not only is the right thing to do and the constitutional thing to do, but it has been very advantageous politically.
Except in the abortion centers of the country like San Francisco or Madison or NYC and the like, pro-life politicians all did extremely well in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections. 2006 was a setback, but I don’t think abortion had anything to do with the Democrat victory. In fact most winning Democrats like Casey ran as pro-lifers, or minimized their pro-abortion positions.
Bush has not communicated his views very well, which is a pity, because it would not only have helped to educate the county, it would have improved his own ratings. Frankly, I think Karl Rove still hasn’t figured this out. He seems to have a blind spot in this area, so it’s a good thing that Bush’s own pro-life convictions are so strong, or he’d probably have been argued out of them.
Yes, he has
>In the Culture of Death one thing leads to another. Abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human cloning, fetal stem cell research, and so forth.<
You’ve got that right, Cicero. Next they will restrict couples to one child each, and euthanasia will be applied to all with birth defects, and all people over 60 years of age.
PRO-LIFE SING-ALONG ON YOUTUBE — http://youtube.com/watch?v=zuLT0vFceD8
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