Is he so obtuse not to see that he had just made a choice of ethics over science
So,the big idea is that there's much more to it than just the science aspect to it and Obama clearly doesn't see that.
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- Sep 2016
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It was populated, as his didactic discourses always are, with a forest of straw men
A golden line for me is, 'It was populated, as his didactic discourses always are, with a forest of straw men'. He considered it a didactic discourse
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How anyone as sophisticated as 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 got lost because i was not aware who Mengele or Tuskegee were. And why is he talking about their living memory.
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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. Moreover, given the protean power of embryonic manipulation, the temptation it presents to science, and the well-recorded human propensity for evil even in the pursuit of good, lines must be drawn. I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end
In a nutshell, this says that the author feels that our body parts aren't the importance of what makes us human. We are not just body parts. There should be a line drawn where scientists should not be allowed clone us for research.
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Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President's Council on Bioethics that, contrary to the Bush policy, federal funding should be extended to research on embryonic stem cell lines derived from discarded embryos in fertility clinics.
I wonder why after arguing for it for so long, the U.S. government is barely looking into it?
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- Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research.
Stem cell research reminds me of S.T.E.M learning. Where it may relate to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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