Bill Frist's U-Turn on Stem Cell Funding

Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) took to the Senate floor yesterday to push for federally-funded stem cell research. While Frist says that we "must support stem cell research," he really means that "taxpayers must pay for stem cell research."

Even if I were to come to the conclusion that the creation of new embryo lines for the purpose of "research" (read: killing them) was moral, which the government has already done, there is absolutely no reason for the government to spend taxpayer funding. We have enough government spending already in an area where private companies are perfectly able to perform R&D without our tax dollars.

We hear a lot about how Republicans are "in bed with big drug companies," but once again, the facts don't support the rhetoric. The Democrats - and now Bill Frist - believe in taxpayer subsidies to big pharma.