In vetoing the latest embryonic stem cell bill the president stated that "destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical."
What a peculiar thing for him to say, considering that saving lives was precisely the justification he gave for starting the last two wars (the killing part goes without saying). It's the basis for both the mushroom cloud and the liberate Iraq lines of reasoning. In fact, killing others in order to save lives is the 2 second definition of the Just War. Anyone remember the days when we were totting that one out? And it's the only "patriotic" explanation EVER given to explain the nuclear bombing of Japan in WWII ("threatening the Soviets" may be a plausible explanation, but it doesn't win you friends at a 4th of July parade).
Maybe it would all be okay if it were Iraqi cells . . .
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Right on, Erin!
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