Bush's veto and all the ranting of the anti-abortion crowd is not going to stop stem-cell research from being done.

Although I'm not sure of this, it's my understanding that American pharmaceutical companies can go ahead with stem-cell research without government funding if they want to. It just means that when and if they turn up something, they'll have to charge more for it to pay for the research. And it doesn't affect foreign researchers at all.

Hypothetical.

Suppose, within the next month or two, stem-cell researchers in Switzerland (outside the reach of George's veto and the opposition of the "pro-life" folks) announce a break-through and come up with a cure for all sorts of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's Disease. And George begins to notice uncontrollable tremors in his hands.   How fast do you think it would take him to book a trip to Switzerland? Would he go there in Air Force One, at tax-payers' expense?

Don Firth