Culture of Life!

The president (the Culture Of Life President) has said he'll veto the stem cell research bill currently being passed by the congress. He's against the destruction of life to preserve life (Unless of course it's foreigners lives). Along with the other right-to-lifers, or rather the manipulators who believe they can get people to give them money and power if they piously proclaim a love of life, the president seems to think its not okay to generate stem cells from human ova to cure disease and save lives. But it is okay to simply destroy the ovum.
Now, in case 1, the ovum, and the cells created from it, continue to live, participating in the life of the person they assist in continuing to live. In case 2, the ovum is discarded. Dies. Is dead.

This is the Culture of Life!

Is it the intent of the Culture-Of-Lifers to define the killing of an ovum (a "potential" life) as murder? Consider that women are born with something in the neighborhood of 68,000 or so oocytes, of which some number will become fertile ova. Of those, some number between zero and 60 will become living humans. Note: 60 is the number of children Hecuba legendarily bore Priam. Thus Homer's reference to "Hecuba's o'erteemed womb". I personally think 60 is an unrealistic number of children for any one woman to give birth to. Especially since of that number only one survived the fall of Troy. I guess because the Grecians didn't believe in the president's Culture Of LIfe. All the rest of the eggs will be discarded. Will the normal monthly menstrual process of discarding an unfertilized ovum become an act of murder? Or is it an act of murder to allow the ovum to die rather than to save it, culture it, and use it to save a life? Which is it Mr. President Bush?
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if letting sperm cells to die rather than making each-and-every-one into a living being is also murder. If so, then certainly men are far more murderous than women could possibly be. Lets face it, Onan wasn't the only one.