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Sunday, August 07, 2005

I thought wingnuts were opposed to frivolous lawsuits
Posted by Jill | 11:34 PM

I swear, you can't make this stuff up:

A national anti-abortion group yesterday served the administrators of California's stem cell institute with a federal lawsuit seeking to stop their work on the grounds that the civil rights of frozen embryos are violated by stem cell research.
The lawsuit was delivered during a a monthly meeting of the institute's oversight committee at the University of California San Diego. Around the same time it arrived, committee Chairman Robert Klein was announcing that several lawsuits filed in state court had been consolidated to be heard by one judge, in one county, on an expedited basis.

That litigation has blocked the sale of government-backed bonds to fund the institute, which is supposed to award $300 million annually for stem cell research.

The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children, could now further delay the sale of bonds.


Atrios is absolutely right:

If I were a cranky liberal lawyer with a lot of time and money on my hands I'd be inspired by this story to file suit against every IVF clinic in the country. It's true that some in the fetus fetish crowd are very quietly opposed to IVF treatments, but as is the case with divorce too many in their flock have had or would certainly pursue the option if necessary so they tend not to say all that much about it.


(hat tip: Pandagon)

Where IS the outrage against IVF clinics, anyway? These people have absolutely no moral high ground on which to stand. A few weeks ago, Garry Trudeau penned a Doonesbury cartoon in which George W. Bush lay awake at night hearing the cries of stem cells. That was a cartoon, but these people aren't all that far removed from this kind of lunacy.

I'm amazed that any self-respecting Republican who still has a shred of sanity is still willing to support a president whose mindset on stem cell research is no different from these nutballs.
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