They feel the president "supports" some research -- privately funded, while opposing federally funded research. The rationale for opposing the funding of the research is that it is murder. But the logic is deeply and hopelessly flawed: if stem cell research is murder, then how can the president have two separate policies -- condoning some forms of what he has termed murder?.
Why do they support privately-funded stem cell research, since it is still murder?
Yesterday, Tony Snow said the White House wants to “encourage” privately-funded embryonic stem-cell research. He practically boasted about the “billions of dollars available in the private sector to make such research possible.” All of this came just minutes after Snow said the president believes this research “involves…the taking of a human life.”So long as theocons run the GOP, the health needs of millions of Americans will be subservient to their narrow-minded dogmas. Should we be surprised at this late date with the recurring Alice in Wonderland-esque reasoning of these people? I'm not.
That’s the real contradiction.
Kevin’s right, banning this research outright would take the affirmative passage of a bill, which falls outside the president’s purview. But therein lies the point — if Bush really believed that the privately-funded research was literally slaughtering untold thousands of human lives in this country, he’d ask Congress to do something about it.
But he doesn’t. On the contrary, his spokesperson boasts about how great all this private investment in mass murder is.
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