In His Meeteings With State Voters Frist Is Defending Stem Cell Research

The Tennessee senator, U-S Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is saying that he is still pro-life, but as a heart surgeon he has used to transplant tissue from one person to give life to someone else.

So now, while Congress is on recess, Frist has scheduled a series of visits across Tennessee answering questions about his support for federal funding for stem cell research, as he broke with President Bush on the stem cell issue in a speech on the Senate floor last month.

Opponents of the research consider it the equivalent of abortion because embryos must be destroyed to harvest the stem cells...