Glaringly absent from his pep talk were any incentives or enthusiasm for stem-cell research, which shows such promise here in Wisconsin.
Instead, Bush announced his steadfast opposition to “human cloning in all its forms.” What that apparently and unfortunately means is that therapeutic cloning at UW-Madison won’t get federal help. That’s wrong because the technology, involving days-old embryos created by injecting human eggs with a living person’s cell to grow stem cells, can combat terrible disease and afflictions.