Bush is hypocritical with his stance on stem cell research

floyd1975

Rockin'InCanada wrote:

Abortion of a fetus and embyortic stem cell reasearch should not even be in the same sentence together...Bush isn't my president so I really cannot get too upset over it...other that the fact there are brillian researchers in the USA who cannot do enlihgtening work now....

If the government would actually stop taking over 1/3 of peoples' money, then there would be plenty of private donations to make this research more possible. There would be even more money thant what trickles out of a government bureaucracy. The research itself is not illegal.

I do agree that this research should be separate from the abortion debate though. Much like I think the AIDS issues have always been hurt by being tied to the gay community.

RockinInCanada

zstillings wrote:

Much like I think the AIDS issues have always been hurt by being tied to the gay community.

Totally agree...."ignorance is bliss"

wolfamongwolves

Even before this Bush was hypocritical on the stem cell issue.

Bush's position on the stem cell issue is that all human life (whether potential or actual) is sacred and should be protected. and yet he has launched two wars in full awareness of the potential for the loss of innocent lives, aware of how to manage the wars to prevent much of this loss of life which he then deliberately did not act upon, and continues not to. Even within the stem cell issue, he accepts that most of the 400,000 extant embryos are "going to be destroyed anyway" (his words), as they are leftovers, but still refuses to allow research on them. His ethics on stem cell research, and on the supposed sanctity of life in general, are not only inconsistent, but logically incoherent, both internally and externally. He has a wholly passive, knee-jerk reactionary, response to questions of ethics, and is, as such, unwilling to engage with the fundamental issues that are essential to any meaningful discussion of these issues that affect so many people. He is totlally entitles to his opinions and beliefs if they should work for him on a personal level - fine by me. But when other people's lives are adversely affected by his personal opinions, that is unspeakably unethical, and unacceptable from a man who claims to base so many of his actions on ethics