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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Someone needs to demand that Bush explain himself on stem cell research
Posted by Jill | 10:50 AM

Bush's position on stem cell research makes no sense whatsoever. Aside from the absolute ridiculousness of a man who sends American young people off to die and kills hundreds of thousands of civilians with impunity talking about how each life is sacred in the context of an undifferentiated group of cells, there's the hypocrisy factor, as outlined by William Saletan:

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed legislation to expand federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research. President Bush said he would veto the legislation because it "violates the clear standard I set four years ago. This bill would take us across a critical ethical line by creating new incentives for the ongoing destruction of emerging human life."

The standard Bush set four years ago and repeated last week is that we shouldn't take one life—even an embryonic life—in order to save others. Cost-benefit analysis is never sufficient grounds for the premeditated killing of civilians—except when it comes to the death penalty. When the discussion shifts from embryos to murderers, Bush and his spokesmen routinely argue that killing is justified not because murderers deserve it, but because it's moral to take one life in order to save others. He doesn't say that Person A should be executed because Person A is a danger to society. He says that Person A should be executed because the execution will deter Person B from killing Person C.

Before Bush vetoes the stem-cell bill, maybe he should explain how his comments about stem cells in the left column below square with his comments about capital punishment in the right column.


I wonder who in the White House Whore Corps will the the first one to ask?
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