In a move that stuns me and makes me actually believe just a little in politicians the government of the United States actually overruled Bushes idiotic stem cell research law.
Amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful.
In other news: Bush vows to veto bill.
*sigh* So much for that little belief in politicians to actually do something useful.
W. has the same bogus, life hating view that comes from all religions, but most specifically Christianity. He is putting what might be ahead of what IS. To put this simply:
Michael J. Fox is dying of Parkinson’s Disease. If this bill does not pass he almost certainly will die. And millions of people world wide that are closer to death than Fox WILL die. That’s called money in the bank. Absolute, certain death. (unless of course more enlightened nations save the day with research that the United States should be doing, but of course only idiots wait for someone else to take care of their problems for them… oh ya, that’s called socialism)
But in some mind numbing warped way, Bush sees his position as defending life. He’s defending 100 cells created in a test tube for the sole purpose of being used in experiments in the same way that we culture bacteria or viruses for study. If the research wasn’t being done, the egg would never be fertilized. And it certainly will never be implanted in a woman to be gestated no matter what. We’re not talking about taking aborted foetuses (although it’s the same difference), we’re talking about taking a single cell from a woman that wilfully gives it up, bombarding it in a Petri dish with millions of cells from a man that willingly gave them up (and probably had a good time in the processes) and then letting it grow for a few days and then experimenting on them. This is not a human. And even if there was any possibility that it would become a human, that’s a POSSIBILITY. It’s possible that those cells might become a human being and live. But Alex P. Keaton is ABSOLUTELY going to die if this research doesn’t happen.
For all of you Christians out there that think you’re defending life with this inane policy of favouring what might be over what is, think carefully the next time you say goodbye to someone with MS, or Parkinson’s or Alzimers or the next time you see someone in a wheel chair or the next time you watch Superman and realize that your policies condemned Christopher Reeves to years in bed unable to move and then eventually his death.
You and people like you killed him, and are committing murder against Michael J. Fox and those that suffer similar ailments. No might be, or possibly preventing a life from happening that would never have happened anyhow, you’re killing real live people. You’re doing it wilfully, cognitively, and with complete forethought and knowledge of the consequences of your actions. That’s 1st degree murder. And the Bible says you should be put to death for it.
Now there’s a contradiction for you.
Embrace life. Real, living human beings that can look you in the eye when their bodies aren’t shaking themselves to pieces, and are pleading with you to just allow scientists to do their jobs and pursue medicines that will allow them to continue to live. Anything else is not only immoral, it’s evil.