Frist has changed his stance on stem cells, and so should the president
It's been just about one year since Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist decided to do an about-face and support embryonic stem-cell research, breaking with President Bush. Some said it was about political expediency– he had so angered moderates by his intervention in the Terri Schiavo case that he was culling their favor by calling for embryonic research. But after spending a couple of hours with the senator on this, I've come to a different conclusion: As a doctor, he believed that the science had changed dramatically and that the stem-cell lines the president authorized for use have not delivered what they promised, and so change is in order.
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Gloria Borger, a contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report, writes the magazine's On Politics column. Borger is also the national political correspondent for CBS and a regular panelist on the PBS public affairs program, Washington Week in Review. Borger is a 1974 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and is now a member of the university's board of trustees.