Re: this thread

In all the hooting and hollering about the morality of funding stem cell research, the basic premise, that the Federal government is and should be the main source of funding for this, is never questioned. This is much like the battles over prayer in public schools, where the basic premise of the government-funded school--the actual source of the controversy--is never addressed.

If all Federal funding for stem-cell research was banned, private funds and funds from the governments of other countries would still be available. This is an artificial issue, and one that was designed and engineered specifically (in the form of one of many Clinton pre-election time bombs) by the Democratic Party to stick Bush with a hot potato.