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  1. Sep 2016
    1. Dr. James Thomson, the discoverer of embryonic stem cells, said "if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Obama clearly has not

      So the big idea is that Obama doesn't understand the strength of of this research. Because the last paragraph says, "Obama clearly has not"

    2. George Bush's nationally televised stem cell speech was the most morally serious address on medical ethics ever given by an American president. I

      ETHICS. The author has used this word at least like 4 times, he is trying to emphasize the research, and that it is reaally controversial

    3. Obama can believe this within living memory of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake (and coercive) South Korean stem cell research is hard to fathom.

      I know I'm on the right track, because they mentioned Josef Mengele and hi conducted some gruesome experiments during WW2

    4. I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

      he is stating that all life is precious but that this cloning thing has to have limits though, because it can be morally wrong

    5. that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001). While I favor moving that moral line to additionally permit the use of spare fertility clinic embryos, Obama replaced it with no line at all.

      This reminds me of situations that require morals or ethics, because topics like this are controversial

    6. WASHINGTON -- Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research.

      Executive order are really important so.. prior knowledge is that it has to do with something important