Snowflake Collectibles
Republicans have invented a new strategy for discounting science: snowflake babies. First, Republicans opposed to the bipartisan stem-cell research bill, which passed the House on Thursday, arranged a press conference with families that have adopted frozen excess embryos, featuring 21 of the 81 snowflake babies. Then, in the afternoon, President Bush appeared at the Rose Garden for a photo op with the snowflake babies as part of a press conference on bioethics.
[Ari Berman, "Outrageous Outtakes", The Nation, 27 May 2005.]
"Snowflake Babies"! Excuse me while I gag.
I keep thinking about those tiresomely twee little Snow Babies collectibles that one can't avoid seeing in gift shops. Then I start wondering whether each little Snowflake comes with its own little Anne Geddies photograph, taken with baby's head in the middle of a giant foam snowflake.
Just too, too precious for words.
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on Monday, 30 May 2005 at 03.25
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Snowflake babies. My, how they like their two-word, "don't bother with thinking about it" catch phrases.
If people are adopting embryos, what's next? Maybe they'll want to hold wakes and funerals or memorial services every time there's a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage. Of course, that's going to require a massive commitment of time, effort and money, because both of these naturally occuring, pregnancy-ending events are fairly common.
Ugh.