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Social conservatives have a history of opposing advances in medicine. As with their initial opposition to organ transplants and in-vitro fertilization, they will eventually come around to accept and benefit from the advances in medicine provided by stem cell research. All President Bush will achieve by his veto of additional federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is to delay the promising benefits it may provide.

He will not save a single frozen embryo from destruction.

Is it better to waste a resource by unceremoniously tossing it into a black plastic bag to thaw and decay, or use that resource to better understand the complexity of the human body?