Like I said above, birthers are few and far between and are not the serious Republicans.  As far as stem-cell research, that is not really a Democrat/Republican issue.  I would guess that most Catholics are Democrats, yet most Catholics don’t support destroying fetuses for stem-cell research.  The issue, as I remember it was the question of whether or not to fund stem-cell research with federal dollars.  Given the somewhat reasoned opposition of some groups to stem-cell research, namely the Catholic church, The Bush policy probably struck the right balance.  Since then this has been rendered a moot issue, because there are now other ways to develop stem-cell lines, without  having to destroy fetuses.

I happen to think that stem-cell research is worthy science, but I can respect the fact that some people have an ethical opposition to this.  I don’t think that they should be forced to fund something they are ethically opposed to.