Protecting One-Celled People

The dependably wry Robert Park had this* to say about the sanctity of "one-celled people":

1. STEM CELLS: PRESIDENT BUSH VOWS TO PROTECT ONE-CELLED PEOPLE.
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act passed the Senate 63-34, but President Bush promises a veto. He said the use of embryonic stem cells in research "crosses a moral line." In case you're wondering where this "moral line" is drawn, WN has looked into it. George W. Bush and other conservative theologians believe a "soul" is assigned to the fertilized egg at the instant of conception. That makes it a person, even though it's not counted in the census. In-vitro fertilization makes a lot more of these one-celled people than it needs; leftovers are stacked in the freezer until it starts filling up. President Bush cares deeply about these helpless one-celled people and wants to ensure they are properly flushed down the disposal rather than exploited by godless scientists interested only in the reduction of suffering.

*Robert Park, "What's New" for 13 April 2007.

Posted on April 13, 2007 at 15.48 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Saturday, 14 April 2007 at 15.43
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    Yes sir, there's nothing quite like those good old traditional family values, neocon style.

    If only they would care half as much about children born into deplorable and desperate circumstances.

  2. Written by jns
    on Saturday, 14 April 2007 at 18.46
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    But, SW, you fail to appreciate the nuances of the President's position. You see, those babies born into deplorable and desperate circumstances are generally the result of moral failings, like welfare mothers who don't understand abstinence; therefore, those children are really penance visited upon them by a stern but loving Jesus.

    Now, those precious and innocent little snowflake babies on the other hand, are the outcome of your more affluent people of better moral fiber who can afford in vitro fertilization and desperately want to have little babies purely for the good of society and because Jesus wants them to.

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