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Posted by: Crossbowman 05/23/2005, 15:17:44  (About author)
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There's a reason this thing's making headway in a Republican-controlled Congress. Clearly there are a number of Republicans who consider themselves vulnerable on the issue - perhaps vulnerable enough to court a Presidential veto so they can go back to their constituents and say they at least tried. That would be something of an embarrassment for him. I don't think the nation as a whole is so convinced of an embryo's inalienable rights that they'd allow sick children and adults to die for the sake of embryos that are going to be destroyed as medical waste by some fertility clinic, and that is how this issue is being seen in some quarters. The fundamental problem is this: if it is wrong for the embryos to be killed in harvesting stem cells, then it is equally wrong for the clinics to produce and then discard (i.e. kill) the embryos in the first place, and the Republican decision not to address that part of the issue is viewed as hypocrisy. If it is NOT wrong for fertility clinics to discard embryos left over from their efforts, then it is equally not wrong to divert those embryos to potentially life-saving use, and the Republican effort to block such use is viewed as extremist. |
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