You'd think that it was the end of the world- libs and the pro abortion crowd going bonkers over the President's veto of federally funded embryonic stem cell research. Political cartoons depict the President as an Ogre that is dashing the hope of millions of afflicted people that just know without a doubt that research using embryonic stem cells will cure them. The unvarnished truth is that embryonic stems cells have not produced one cure, not one disease, spinal injury, Alzheimer, nothing.
Years and years of privately funded research has resulted in zero success on any medical front- and, private funding will continue worldwide anyway. But there is hope- Adult stem cell research has been successful on several fronts, including Diabetes and Alzheimer research. Why won't these liberal hand-wringers get behind Adult stem cell research and demand federal funding for it when it has already shown results? Because it is all perceived as a threat to abortion on demand rights- once an embryo is recognized as human life and is rightly protected from being destroyed, it then becomes a slippery slope to banning first late term and then oh no! all abortion on demand, thus saving millions of babies each year in the US alone. It doesn't matter that stem cells harvested from adults with no destruction of life might some day result in a cure for diabetes or Alzheimer or Cystic Fibrosis or cancer-  The thought of losing even a small part of  abortion on demand, even in the late term is unacceptable to the culture of death.