Loosening Restrictions on Embryonic Stem Cells

This is good news. Even though the House cannot override a threatened presidential veto on embryonic stem cell legislation, I strongly believe that more Americans are in favor of loosening restrictions than are opposed. When you consider how many of us have a family member or friend who stands to gain from advancing stem cell research, and quickly, the political/moral rhetoric falls away. And this issue isn't simply a political stress point that Democrats should keep putting before the President, though pundits may frame it that way. This is about quality of life for the living.

Visit PollingReport.com and scroll down to the section on stem cell research. As recently as last month, and dating back to 2001, polls from CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Newsweek, TIME, Associated Press, Gallup, Pew, Wall Street Journal and even Fox News all suggest that Americans are comfortable with embryonic stem cell research, that Americans want the government to support such research with federal funding, and that, by and large, this is a nonpartisan issue.

I had planned to post a whole bunch of samples, but that turned into a big mess (problems importing the text). In addition to PollingReport, Research!America compiles public polls and tracks the trends in the stem cell debate.