Obama, Slayer of Babies
Monday, March 9, 2009 at 10:03PM I heard and read part of Obama's announcement about stem cell research and I only have a couple of things to say about that. First, he made some passing references to ethics and "concerns" but the gloss indicates that he's not deeply troubled by ethics where pre-alive babies are concerned. We knew that.
Second, I have a deep admiration for George Bush's seriousness on matters of human life. I heard Charles Krauthammer speak about his stint on the President's Council on Bioethics, and, while he personally didn't draw the line where George Bush did (CK favored using embryos left over from invitro treatments), he too admired the depth of GWB's thinking on this issue, and said that his August 2001 speech was the best presidential speech on the subject ever. So Obama's facile dismissal of Bush's policy as placing moral values before sound science is just plain, self-serving distortion.
Well, as with so much of emanating from the White House, we knew this going in. Any man who would vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act is a pro-abortion, pro-infanticide radical. He doesn't have to trouble his pretty, graying little head about niceties of ethics. Ethics are for us knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who don't mind being punished with babies.