Here’s one of your MUST-READS for today (aside from all my blog entries, all the newest forum entries, Anne Coulter’s latest column and all the other columnists columns). It’s the lead editorial in OpinionJournal.com today. It only takes 3 minutes to read and you’ll be enormously educated by it.
Come on liberals! It’s painless to learn and to get actual facts! Make today the day you check that out!
It’s about the stem-cell research debate down south, and as I’ve been trying to say, people both there and here have it all wrong as usual—on purpose! Yes, once again, the liberal media and regular liberals spin it …oh who am I kidding? They constantly lie about the actual facts of the matter.
Note how in the editorial they point out how the mainstream media try to portray this as an “us normal liberal-folk versus them damn religious freaks” issue, just like they do here regarding the gay ‘marriage’ debate and abortion, for example.
Note also how Americans, being just that much more advanced and sophisticated politically than Canadians are (thanks Fox News Channel and OpinionJournal et al!), are capable of having honest, reasoned debates about issues, and compromising. Compare to Liberal-leftist Health Minister Dosanjh and his bombastic ranting about our (North Korean-style) health care system, and his perpetuating the lies about it being either the way it is now (North Korean)—or else it will turn into an evil credit-card-based American system catering ONLY to “rich” people. And that’s from an “honorable” minister of the crown.
There’s no Bush “ban,” and research money is flowing.
The debate over stem-cell research is once again being portrayed as a kind of moral Armageddon: a choice between federal funding and none, between scientific progress and religious zealotry. We hate to spoil the political drama, but maybe the system has stumbled toward a compromise that is more sensible than the debate makes it appear.
A bipartisan bill that passed the House on Tuesday would lift restrictions imposed by President Bush in 2001 on federal financing for stem-cell research. Mr. Bush threatens to veto the bill—a first for his Presidency—saying it “would take us across a critical ethical line.” But despite GOP defections and likely passage in the Senate, no one doubts that Mr. Bush has the votes to sustain a veto.
Recall what the President’s August 2001 decision actually did. It allowed federal funding for research on existing stem-cell lines where, he said, “the life and death decision has already been made.” But it forbade funding for research into new lines, which entailed both the creation and destruction of human embryos.
Critically, Mr. Bush’s decision applied only to federal funding; it did not impinge on the rights of individual researchers, universities, hospitals, private labs, public corporations or states to conduct embryonic research. In other words, the President did not “ban” anything. He simply refused to allow taxpayer money to be spent on a practice millions of Americans consider morally offensive.
Read the last paragraph in the editorial eight times. No, ten. Read it to your friends. Read it in the mirror. Read it to your friends. Read it upside down.
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