Bush Not Alone

July 21, 2006

On the heels of President Bush’s veto of an attempt to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in the United States comes word that Germany’s research minister, Annette Schavan, has sent a letter to the European Union pressing for a ban on European funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The European Union science programme should not be used to give financial incentives to kill embryos . . . The current proposal from the European Commission and the European Parliament does not rule this out.