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[theweaselking]

On the idiot-king vetoing a bill allowing medical research, I will let slacktivist have the floor for a minute:

Several polls have shown a clear majority of Americans support the research, which would use embryos that already exist in fertility clinics and would otherwise be thrown out. ...

Bush announced his veto before a White House audience including some families of children born from adopted embryos, called "snowflake babies" by opponents of the stem-cell research.

This is what [Bush] means by a "moral boundary." He believes that these embryos must never be used for research, because morality demands that they be tossed in the trash with yesterday's coffee grounds.

The photo-op with the "snowflake babies" is meaningless. Bush wasn't signing a law mandating that the soon-to-be-discarded embryos from fertility clinics be put up for adoption. By blocking this legislation he was ensuring that these embryos be thrown away, scrapped, destroyed. And he did so claiming that this was a sign of respect for what he claims to believe are fully human persons.

He does not -- cannot -- really believe any such thing.

To really believe this, and to casually continue to permit these embryos to be destroyed, would be monstrous. If Bush really thought the "snowflake babies" sideshow were anything more than duplicitous hot air, he would be a moral monster for not immediately acting on that belief and sending in the national guard to save the lives of the thousands of American citizens now languishing in freezers in fertility clinics across the country.

And from his comments, I bring you "Snowflake Babies: because calling them 'Operation Save Aryan Embryos So We Don't Have to Adopt a Black or Biracial Child' wouldn't fit on a business card."

Comments

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

He's just nutz,wish he was frozen so his cells broke down and he couldn't be defrosted.Mmmnn!Bushsicle

[un-sedentary.livejournal.com]

Dude, with today's adopting embryos and donating sperm, you never know if the person standing next to you could be your brother.

No wonder there are places that require a blood test before they let you get married (I wonder what percentage of couples find out they're related...).

Not that I'm against this, I mean. I'm all for helping people have children and the situation I described is not that likely. But this thought has been bugging me.

[un-sedentary.livejournal.com]

(oh yes, and I'm not a stalker, I just clicked a link on metaquotes.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I got metaquotesed again recently? Which post?

(Hi, welcome in, etc etc etc)