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A nation that elects to kill it's unborn, is not a nation at all.
I've heard these words spoken at many of the Right to Life walks and rallies I've participated in. Each year, 1.3 million abortions are performed in the United States.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute reported in 2001, that 57% percent of these are performed at a gestational age of less than nine weeks, 20% at 9-10 weeks and 10% at 11-12 weeks.
At twelve weeks in my pregnancy, I had an ultrasound completed in which I saw the tiny heartbeat of my baby, rapidly beating inside of my belly. It was fascinating.
Although the life growing inside of me looked nothing like the baby I delivered twenty-six weeks later, I knew the tiny embryo developed into a fetus and was a human life from the moment of conception.
Unfortunately, Congress doesn't feel the same way about America's unborn.
A Senate bill that was created to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research was passed 63-34 on Wednesday, however President Bush vowed to veto the Senate stem cell bill.
"This bill crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling," he said. "If it advances all the way through Congress to my desk, I will veto it."
The Senate bill is similar to the one the President disapproved last year in which he used the only veto of his presidency thus far.
The bill was intended to release the restrictions that have been placed upon stem cell research, but it has fallen short of the veto-proof margin that is needed to enact the law over the President's objections.
Sentors Tom Harkin of Iowa and Claire McCaskill called for the unleashing of America's sicentists as it's "not everday we have the opportunity to heal the sick."
President Bush and many conservatives believe the research destroys human life with the destruction of human embryos.
Many are in favor of adult stem cell research, as I've written about before, but scientists claim adult cells are not as promising as embryonic stem cells.
The more I think about it, the embryos aren't promising either.
They'll never be born to become teachers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, postal workers, stay-at-home parents, bloggers, journalists, senators or even President, when they're being destroyed every day.
Contributing Editor Dana J. Tuszke also blogs at The Dana Files.
