So you thought Obama wanted to take ideology out of science. . .
Well, this should open your eyes.
Everyone knows by now that President Obama has signed an executive order for federal funding for the harvesting of unborn children for parts (otherwise known as embryonic stem cell research).
He has also rescinded President Bush’s order for funding of alternative methods using another type of stem cell — methods that don’t destroy lives, and are much more promising when it comes to saving them.
Wesley J. Smith writes at First Things:
“The Administration didn’t publicize this part of the President’s nasty work, but the now dead 2007 Bush order explicitly required funding for “alternative methods” of stem cell research—such as the new induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSC), a process that changes skin or other cells such as hair follicles into pluripotent stem cells without making or destroying embryos. IPSCs offer so much promise—and all without the ethical contentiousness of human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Indeed, these alternative methods are one of the few areas in which people who are pro-life and pro-choice, conservative and liberal, pro and anti-ESCR can agree upon, the very type of policy that this president said he wanted to pursue.”
So Obama wants to fund stem-cell research if and only if it destroys human embryos. Nothing ideological about this at all, of course! No, he truly is a pro-life president, really!
Read more here.
And then there’s this:
LONDON, March 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Oxford University stem cell expert has urged the use of aborted children in organ transplants as a solution to the shortage of available organs. Sir Richard Gardner has called for a feasibility study on the possibility of obtaining organs from the bodies of aborted babies.
He said, “It is probably a more realistic technique in dealing with the shortage of kidney donors than others.”
The Daily Mail reports that pro-life and Christian groups have called the proposal “morally abhorrent,” and said it will result in abortions being timed to suit transplant patients. (More from Life Site News).
It’s only the first step. You can count on more of this happening as we continue down the slippery slope.
