http://usliberals.about.com/od/stemcellresearch/i/StemCell1_2.htm

We found this link today. I personally had not payed much attention to the decisions the presidents had to take until I read the excerpt of Dr. Frederick Grinnell. In one section he discusses how President George W. Bush cut the funding for embryonic stem cell research, however, according to this article in 2009 President Obama lifted the ban and began funding the research once again:

         "Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident. They result from painstaking and costly research, from years of lonely trial and error, much of which never bears fruit, and from a government willing to support that work..."

Here we not only see individual belief, but also a change in belief and aspirations of a nation as a whole. As a result we now begin to see a greater support for the use of these embryonic stem cells.