Dance of the Stem Cells (washingtonpost.com)

Dance of the Stem Cells (washingtonpost.com): "As Laura Bush put it, George Bush 'is the only president to ever authorize federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.' She noted that 'few people know' this. Few may have known it, but many might have guessed. It is true indeed that Bush's predecessors, from George Washington to Bill Clinton, failed to fund embryonic stem cell research. Even Abraham Lincoln. Not a penny for stem-cell research from any of them. Historians believe this might have been because it didn't exist yet. But that's just a guess. "