From: holzman@fnalno.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman)
Subject: Re: CLINTON SPEECH TEXT: BUSH FETAL TISSUE VETO
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:07:57 GMT
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>          CLINTON CALLS BUSH VETO OF "FETAL TISSUE" BILL
>                   "POLITICS -- PURE AND SIMPLE"
> 
>     Following is a statement by Governor Bill Clinton on President Bush's veto
> today of the 1992 National Institutes of Health Reauthorization Act:
> 
>      President Bush's refusal to sign this vital piece of legislation is
> politics -- pure and simple.  He has turned what would have been a very
> important step forward in the fight to save the lives of millions of American
> women into an ugly bow to the far right.  I urge Congress to override the
> President's veto.
> 
>      The President wants us to believe that vetoing this bill will discourage
> abortions.  But this bill isn't about abortion: it's about freeing scientists
> to do the research that could prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of breast
> cancer, osteoporosis, and a host of other devastating illnesses that have
> destroyed and bankrupted thousands of American families: Parkinson's,
> Alzheimer's, sometimes fatal diabetes.
> 
>      This veto is classic Bush/Quayle.  The President seems content to let
> Vice-President Quayle do the barking, while keeping the bite for himself.  The
> simple fact is that there's no good scientific reason to maintain the fetal
> tissue research ban.  Even the man who first called for the ban, Ronald 
> Reagan's
> Secretary of Health Human Services, Dr. Otis Bowen, believes the ban should be
> lifted.  And some of Congress's strongest opponents of choice,
> including Senators Thurmond, Simpson and Hatfield, have joined in the major
> bi-partisan effort to pass the NIH Reauthorization and lift the ban.
> 
>      Let's be clear about this: this bill is the first major legislation that
> promotes research into breast cancer -- a disease that kills 45,000 American
> women every year. Hundreds of thousands of their children, husbands, and 
> family members will share that loss.
> 
> And the President's answer is to put the brakes on the only research that 
> offers them hope, while offering an "alternative that the experts agree 
> would do nothing.
> 
>      The Bush/Quayle team talks a lot about family values.  But when it has a
> chance to do something, it proves that it really doesn't value families.
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