Agree with Obama or You’re an ‘Ideologue’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 11th, 2009 4:39 am by HL
Agree with Obama or You’re an ‘Ideologue’
In America, 2009, things happen that you once wouldn’t have thought would happen, such as deference toward human life smacked down as outworn ideology. By the President of the United States, no less. So it goes in the Age of Obama. “Promoting science,” said our new chief executive, in overturning a George W. Bush executive order limiting stem cell research on embryos, is “about letting scientists … do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion … It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we would make scientific decisions based on facts, not ldeology.” The “ideology” of human life — life as good, valuable, worthy of protection from unprovoked violence — underlay the Bush policy of ruling out experimentation on new embryos to find, supposedly, new ways of combating diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and other physical disorders.
The Politics of Stem Cells
With a stroke of a pen, President Obama has reversed former President Bush’s ban on taxpayer financing of embryonic stem cell research. (In a display of indifference or cowardice, he’s announced he’s leaving it to Congress to decide whether and how to further lift restrictions on human cloning.) But “embryonic stem cell research”? Now there’s a mouthful. What does that mean?
