The stem-cell bill passed in the Senate, 63-37, but looks set for a presidential veto. The rationale?

"The president is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something living and making it dead for the purposes of scientific research." - White House press secretary Tony Snow

We're a lot further down this "slippery slope" than they profess. In the grand scheme of injustices that our government perpetrates against helpless individuals, stem cell research is peanuts. Detentions, torture, preemptive war, bombing civilians; these are all things we've done in the name of the greater good, and it's certainly debatable whether any of these actions are even effective in reaching their respective goals. Yet the administration takes no serious action in limiting its ability perform these acts (which affect people who are actively living lives, who have families suffering from their absence) but sees fit to impede the progress of medical research.
We have a tremendous opportunity to relieve a lot of suffering, and embryonic stem-cell research promises discoveries that benefit all humankind. This is what Bush's first and only presidential veto is about to negate.