“Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure.”
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, arguing for a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (The New York Times, 8 June)
“Recent scientific developments have reinforced my conviction that stem cell science can progress in ethical ways.”
President George Bush, who has pledged to veto the House of Representatives’ bill on embryonic stem cell research on the basis that amniotic or adult stem cells…
