Stem Cells and Bush’s Hypocrisy

Re “House Defies the President on Stem Cells,” May 25: When the president on Tuesday welcomed 21 families to the White House, all with children from embryos donated by other couples, I couldn’t help but see there were some people missing: those with spinal cord injuries, cancer patients and the rest who could benefit from more extensive stem cell research. Is George Bush afraid he might catch some truth?

Jim Geezil

Agua Dulce

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Embryos apparently need to be saved by George Bush and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in order to protect the “cycle of life.”

That these embryos will be discarded no matter the legal outcome, but using the cells could save and lengthen lives, is somehow lost in the multidirectional moral compass the hard right has in front of it.

It appears that war, disease and execution are the only moral allowances in interfering in the life’s cycle.

Hypocrisy? Who mentioned hypocrisy?

Stephen Rafferty

North Hollywood