by Bob Allen | Aug 5, 2005 | News
Focus on the Family’s James Dobson said Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist betrayed pro-life voters with his flip-flop on stem cells, comparing the destruction of human embryos for research to experiments on humans done in Nazi concentration camps...
by Robert Parham | Aug 1, 2005 | Opinion
Sen. Frist took a needed step forward for medical research when he announced Friday his support for expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, using frozen embryos left over at fertility clinics that would otherwise be discarded. His speech lacked the...
by Bob Allen | Aug 1, 2005 | News
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist risked alienating the religious right, a constituency many say he needs to carry to be elected president in 2008, by announcing on the Senate floor on Friday that he supports federal funding for medical research using frozen human...
by Robert Parham | Jun 1, 2005 | Opinion
A new odor of mendacity oozed from the White House last week when President Bush held a reception for the 21 families who have adopted or given up for adoption frozen embryos. “Rather than discard these embryos created during in vitro fertilization, or turn them...
by Robert Parham | May 26, 2005 | Opinion
Ignoring President Bush’s threatened veto, the House of Representatives passed a bill this week supporting federal funding for stem cell research using embryos discarded at fertility clinics. The 238 to 194 vote included 50 Republicans who broke from their...
