house fails to override bush's veto

The House on Wednesday failed to muster enough votes to override President Bush’s veto of a bill to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research. Backers of the bill, approved by the House a year ago with a strong bipartisan margin, and the Senate on Tuesday, did not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override Bush’s first in more than five years in the White House. Bush on Wednesday rejected the legislation that could have multiplied the federal money going into embryonic stem cell research, making an emotionally charged life-and-death issue the first veto of his presidency."This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others," Bush said in announcing his veto. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect.""Mr. President, we will not give up," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. "We will continue this battle."Bush was making good on a promise he made in 2001 to limit federally funded embryonic research to the stem cell lines that had been created by the time.Supporters of more research were not expected to muster the two-thirds majorities needed in both houses of Congress to overturn the president's veto."If we are to find the right ways to advance ethical medical research, we must also be willing when necessary to reject the wrong ways," his message said. "For that reason, I must veto this bill.

I disagree with bush and his veto because I do not think that this research would promote more abortions. It is only using cells from life that has already been killed. There should have been enough votes by the house to override his veto.