Links With Your Coffee - Sunday
- I watched the Coen brother's No Country for Old Men last night and got exactly what I expected, a great movie. Here's your homework if you're inclined to do homework. Read Bertrand Russell's "A Free Man's Worship" and based on his writing decide which if any characters are free and which are not. Show your work.
- Why Science Can't Save the GOP - TIME
The stem-cell announcement also brought happiness to many politicians, especially Republicans. It filled them with the hope that the whole messy issue could go away. If stem cells, or something like them, can be obtained without the use of embryos, that eliminates the supposed ethical problem that led President George W. Bush to ban almost all federal financing of embryonic-stem-cell research in 2001. The result has been a severe reduction in embryonic-stem-cell research. The issue has been agony for many Republicans, torn between the majority of voters, eager for the benefits of this scientific advance, and the small but intense minority who believe that a clump of a few dozen cells floating in a petri dish has the same human rights as you or I.
But any Republicans who think the stem-cell breakthrough gets them off the hook are going to end up very unhappy. This issue will not go away.
- YouTube - O'Reilly on 'Stupid' Celebrities Who Slam Bush
- The moral agent | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
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- MVL Blog — Movement Vision Lab
Comments
Here is a blast from the past. A documentary on the rise of Jerry Falwell and the MM.
http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2007/05/life-and-liberty-for-all-who-believe.html
Kinsley's 3rd point is the biggie.
"This has been a powerful argument in favor of such research. Why let these embryos go to waste? But a more important point is, What about fertility clinics themselves? ... Even if all embryonic-stem-cell research stopped tomorrow, this far larger mass slaughter of embryos would continue."
Those who come back with "the government just doesn't want to fund the destruction of embryos" are grasping at straws. This administration has cut science down as much as they can. They are pro-life, as long as the person whose life they save ain't alive.
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