President Bush today issued his second veto of a measure lifting his restrictions on human embryonic stem cell experiments, a move that effectively pushed the contentious scientific and ethical debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign.
At the same time, Mr. Bush issued an executive order intended to encourage scientists to pursue other forms of stem cell research that he does not deem unethical. But that research is already going on and the plan provides no new money.
Advocates for embryonic stem cell research called the new plan a ploy to distract from Mr. Bush’s opposition to the studies. “I think the president has issued a political fig leaf,” said Sean Tipton, spokesman for the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, an advocacy group. “He knows he’s on the wrong side of the American public.”
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