Originally posted by Eagler
if this ever passes, abortion clinics will be like sperm banks where one will be paid for their deposit ...
neubob, why does this set anything back? you think the US is the only country that can do that research?
No, the US is not the only one. It is, however, the wealthiest. The US is also home to some of the world's most famous and most productive centers for medical research--the NIH being one of them.
To keep places like the NIH, Johns Hopkins and hundreds of other facilities, hospitals and universities from working to their full potential sets back medical science--no two ways about it.
Before anyone even says it, no, I do not support research the likes of which was perpetrated by the Nazis. I do not enjoy the concept of partial birth abortions, or anything of the like... At the same time, I do not think that this even comes close. Bush is working off a largely unscientific definition of what life is and when consciousness begins, and I simply do not agree.