IF PRESIDENT George W. Bush vetoes liberalisation of stem cell regulations, as he has promised, he will risk damaging Republicans’ chances in this year’s congressional elections. So said Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette, speaking in London on 1 June while on a bipartisan congressional delegation investigating how the UK regulates stem cell research.
“If the president stands in the way of the law, there will be political consequences”
The US Senate is expected to back the loosening of restrictions on stem cell research in a few weeks’ time. Public support for such work is rising fast: 72 per cent of Americans…
