{"id":2018,"date":"2006-07-18T19:23:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/embryonic_stem_cell_research_b\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T23:23:18","slug":"embryonic_stem_cell_research_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/embryonic_stem_cell_research_b\/","title":{"rendered":"Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Alexander and Frist vote <em>in favor<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00206\">increasing federal funding<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Decider promises to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/18\/AR2006071800182.html\">exercise his first veto<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who has survived two types of cancer, said he believed &quot;it is a clear-cut question to use embryos to save lives, because otherwise they will be destroyed.&quot; Fertility clinics hold about 400,000 unneeded embryos, he said, and only 128 have been &quot;adopted&quot; by families that played no role in creating them. &quot;A century from now people will look back in amazement that we could even have this debate when the issues are so clearly cut,&quot; Specter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of us don&#8217;t need a century of hindsight to be amazed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/embryonic_stem_cell_research_b\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill\"><p>Senators Alexander and Frist vote in favor of increasing federal funding. The Decider promises to exercise his first veto. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who has survived two types of cancer, said he believed &quot;it is a clear-cut question to use embryos to save lives, because otherwise they will be destroyed.&quot; Fertility clinics hold about 400,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}