Posted by
brad on Friday, August 11, 2006 4:41:28 PM
The issue of Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research has been shamefully distorted by the press and has been turned into a very useful political advantage for the 'party of death'. The recent vote by the US House of Representatives on S. 2754, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapeis Enhancement Act exposes their strategy.
National Review OnLine has a superb (as always) essay by Robert George and Eric Cohen on the politics which controlled the rejection of S. 2754. Cohen and George make it abundantly clear that this rejection by the 'party of death', led by Rep. Michael Castle, was not a defense of science as claimed or even a means to obtain more funding for human cloning or embryonic stem cell research. It was simply and obviously a blatant effort to keep alive a biased and undeservedly political issue.