To Stop a Flood
Faced with what most observers thought was a decision for or against funding research that destroys human embryos, President Bush chose a third option: To fund research on human embryos that have already been destroyed, but whose cell lines are being kept available in labs.That means that federal funds wont go to the destruction of human embryos. Thats no small thing in todays climate. At the same time, it would have been better to withhold money for any destructive research, whether the victims are dead or alive.