Stardate 20010809.1336 (On Screen): Well, our beloved President is finally going to announce his decision on federal funding of stem cell research this evening, so it's time to make book on what he'll say. Given this administration's predilection for "My way and to hell with the rest of you's" I predict he's going to go hardcore conservative on us and ban it. He'll go full conservative, no compassion, on the "compassionate conservative" scale. (And then Congress will try to override him.)
The EC just announced that it intended to try to enforce a ban on stem cell research in all member countries. Fortunately, the Japanese have announced their intention to pursue research. (discuss)
Update: Well, it could have been worse. He ended up going with the compromise 
which got floated so long ago: destroy no new fetuses but continue working with existing stem cell lines already harvested.
