Bush uses first-ever veto to kill popular stem cell bill
Jul 19 2:34 PM US/Eastern
US President George W. Bush used his legislative veto for the first time to block a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush said at the White House.
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, passed by the US Senate on Tuesday, would lift rules Bush set in 2001 that make federal funds available only for research on a small number of embryonic stem cell lines which existed at that time.
