The President had an opportunity to change people's lives and yet he chose to dash the hopes of millions of Americans. Bush's veto of Stem Cell Research is yet one more misguided decision.

I look at my brother-in-law with Parkinson's, my clients with spinal cord injuries, my friends with MS and diabetes, and my parents' friends with Alzheimers and wonder why they are less important than a small group of unorganized cells that are going to be discarded. Which is a better fate for these cells? To be tossed in a dumpster or to be a source of new life and hope for those already born on this earth?