It finally happened! After one year of stalling the Senate finally voted on HR 810. The Senate did APPROVE HR810 yesterday 63 to 37 HOWEVER they F A I L E D to get the 2/3 vote they needed to override a presidential veto. President Bush promised last May when we were in DC that he would override this legislation should the House and Senate approve it. This will be the first veto of his presidency and he is expected to do this tomorrow. He is catching a lot of heat for this but I know that a certain little red head will be on his brain tomorrow. The little red headed boy now watching cartoons who last summer stood right next to him when he promised the nation that he would defend every Snowflake. Thank you Lord for granting us a President who is not afraid to stand alone. The Brinkman family will never forget.
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thank you Lord – please help President Bush to follow through and not grow weary! amen.
Good day! I just read an article saying that it was vetoed and he brought up the snowflake group. What a wonderful man he is! Praise God that this is over…
I’m very disappointed by the veto, and I know that others feel the same as I do.
As the mother of a child who is paralyzed from the waist down, Bush’s veto means that promising research that WOULD have allowed her to walk on her own one day will not come to fruition. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that other more progressive countries will allow this research to continue so that my daughter will one day WALK down the aisle at her wedding.
I understand how precious and valuable all life is. I almost lost my daughter. I do not advocate killing embryoes who’s parents want to offer them for adoption. However, I feel that those embryoes whose parents do not want to adopt out and do not want to implant should be given the chance to make a difference in the life of other human beings. I view it rather like organ donation. These embryoes are currently just being discarded. Not all parents want to adopt their ebryoes out, and this would have given them another option.
So many sides to this issue. Too bad Bush can’t or won’t see past the end of his short nose.
Judy,
Those embryos are NOT organs. THEY did NOT give their permission to be donated to science. You cannot maintain a pro life position and insist that only WANTED lives are valuable. We either have value as humans or we do not. The moment we get to DECIDE if one has value or not, we are on a slippery slope toward tragic disrespect of all life.
As it stands there are no human clinical trials that indicate that embryonic stem cell research would heal anyone of anything. EVEN IF THAT WERE THE CASE THOUGH, sacrificing one human life for another is tragic. I do not say this as a mother who has not faced suffering. My second son, not born through embryo adoption may be facing a CP diagnosis and yes I have heard the rumors that embryonic stem cell research MAY help with CP issues. I look at Tanner and Ty and can’t imagine that anyone would think Tanner’s life should/could/would have been traded for Ty’s potential healing. Judy, that is absolutely sickening to me to even hear it suggested. THANK GOD I DID WANT TANNER because apparently their are many Americans who would have quickly sacrificied him for someone else. As a mother that leaves me outraged.
As for the “they are going to die anyway” argument, we are all going to die. The minute we decide that the argument that “someone is going to die anyway” is a valid defense for committing murder, there will be many more categories of humans that become vulnerable beyond embryos. At some point, all who are suffering will be evaluated against some medical committees assertation to what their quality of life is and those who are labeled as potential for “low quality” will be first on the list for living organ donation.
If in the future, our culture chooses to support this mantra, children like your daughter and my Ty will then become vulnerable as well. When Ty was in the NICU doctors warned me that if he had bilateral hemorrages (which he DID) that we would need to discuss removing life support because he “may” have a lower quality of life. Thank the Lord my husband and I refused to listen to it. Ty is alive and one of our greatest treasures. Even Hollywood sees the writing on the wall – the movie Gattaca is quite eye opening. Imagine a society that would so easily throw away all those who are elderly, disabled, or simply very tiny/young? That is exactly where we are headed the minute we decide that because someone is going to die anyway, that we can justify using them as spare parts for someone else. Sounds like the Natzi invasion to me. How many thousands of Jews were researched on because they were going to die in the concentration camps anyhow? History does not look on this decision kindly. I pray that in the generations to come, we will learn that ALL life is precious and we will stop this horrifying discrimination.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana)
LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BUSH.
P.S. I do not say this disrespecting your daughters suffering. I know how much it hurts to watch your children suffer. Been there done that. I would give about anything to erradicate sickness and disease…but not my child. Not my Tanner. His is too precious. From the MOMENT OF HIS CONCEPTION he was of incredible valuable and not only because someone wanted him. Sometimes people CHOOSE to lay down their lives for a cause – as in our American soldiers. It is not heroic to REQUIRE someone else to lay down their life for a cause. That is called murder.
And one other thing that needs to be mentioned….
HR 810 is about FEDERAL FUNDING. It is totally inaccurate to say that President Bush just kaboshed all embryonic stem cell research (oh how I wish THAT was true). Embryonic stem cell research CAN be privately funded. The issue on the table is whether the federal government has the right to spend tax payer money funding an issue that MANY Americans find grossly immoral. There is no law preventing YOU from funding this research and there should be NO LAW REQUIRING me to!
Thanks Doni for sharing that. Once we start calling wrong right, we are headed for destruction. How desparately we wish for a cure for so many sad and scary things out there that affect us detrimentally, but we can NEVER choose the death of one to enhance the life of another. We will pray for Judy’s little one, along with our Ty and so many others. Let’s see where adult stem cell research gets us – it already has some promising leads, and pray for our tiniest children to be brought to the life they were created for. I too applaud our President who not only stood his ground, but followed through with what he said he would do. Let’s not go “backwards” to go “forward.” For then we would in deed be in a slippery slope towards our humanity and moral fiber.