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THANK YOU, THANK YOU
"Decision likely headed for courts, Hill" continued: to expand embryonic research beyond that envisioned by the president," said Family Research Council President Ken Connor. "This concession also puts the president on the wrong side of the principle. If 60 stem cell lines are morally acceptable, then why not 600 or 6,000? Furthermore, the president did not address the issue of unrestrained private-sector research. If killing embryos is unacceptable in publicly funded institutions, how can it be moral when carried out in private laboratories?" said Mr. Connor. "Moral principles are not divisible. Killing human embryos for research is wrong in every instance. The president is only stepping deeper into the moral morass," he said. Ga ry Bauer, a former Republican presiden ti al candidate who now heads the Campaign for Working Families, said Mr.
Bush has alienated his political base by breaking his campaign pledge. "Those of us on the right-to-life side will be saddened because he will have conceded a major principle, which is that there are occasions when it's OK to take one life without their permission, to benefit somebody else," Mr. Bauer said. "If they [allow federal funding] thinking it finesses the issue, they will have made a really terrible mistake. It has the potential of becoming over time a'read my lips," the famous pledge made and later broken by Mr. Bush's father on enacting no new taxes -- and which many say cost him a 1992 re-election.
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