Thanks to Feministe for this link. The moral outrage over stem cell research (a topic I often hear on religious radio) seems to be more complicated than the Bush supporters suggest. The language about destroying life for research hides the fact that the in vitro process creates numerous extra embryos that are often destroyed.
BTW, the story yesterday on the Schiavo autopsy was interesting given how many on the right called this murder and said that she was awake and conscious. I checked out the 700 club's web site. The story was very short and ended with a priest saying that the autopsy didn't remove the moral issues of ending life. I agree. Those are serious and not clear. But it is clear that people like Robertson and others misled their viewers into believing, as Stephen Colbert put it, "Schiavo was a Pilates class away from recovery."
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