Culture of life

Ken Grandund of Common Sense offers this excellent piece, that takes a look at the heated debate over using frozen embryos (most of which are destined to be discarded) for purposes of stem cell research - and the illogical stance of our "culture of life" Hypocrite in Chief. Excerpts:

Such scientific advances would seem to promote life for already living humans, or cure humans who are hanging to life in precarious medical situations, something that Bush and his party seemed eager to advance during the whole Terry Schiavo grandstanding last year. So, according to their actions in the Schiavo case, it would seem logical to assume that Bush would support this research.

But as with many things from the Bush administration, logic is not at the forefront of their decision-making processes. Despite the president's desire to see things as either black or white, right or wrong, the fact is that the world is seldom that accommodating...

In his 2006 State of the Union speech, Bush proclaimed that, "Human life is a gift from our Creator -- and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale." Yet when it comes to frozen embryos, this is hardly true. In fact, such embryos are created in a petri dish in a laboratory by human scientists. And they are discarded with regularity. And the president knows it. Why then can they not be used to advance the science of medicine that would better the condition of human life? For a man willing to sacrifice the living in poorly thought out wars, why the hesitation to use that which will never be life to help heal the sick or cure the diseases that plague humanity?

Bravo, Ken, bravo.