Bush vetoes embryonic stem-cell bill

President Bush on Wednesday vetoed the embryonic stem-cell research bill, his first veto in 5 1/2 years in office. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush told backers at a White House event. House Republican leaders have said they would try for an override vote on the measure, but it's unlikely to pass, lacking the two-thirds majority needed in each chamber. In August 2001, Bush announced that his administration would allow federal funding only for research on about 60 stem-cell lines that existed at the time. Researchers have since found that many of those lines are contaminated and unusable for research."In 2001, I spoke to the American people and set forth a new policy on stem-cell research that struck a balance between the needs of science and the demands of conscious," Bush said.

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