BUSH IS RIGHT RE STEM CELL
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
US President George W. Bush is absolutely on target regarding stem cell research. Further, he’s totally consistent in his ethic and logic — no destruction of human life. It’s a "culture of life" that the President endorses. Nothing middle ground. Nothing less.
Consistent. Reasonable. Moral.
We are all embryos. It’s just that those of us who are debating the topic have a few more years on us than the human embryos in plastic dishes. But humans are we all. Embryos at one chronology or another we all are.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), along with his wife, Christine, is known for his support for adoption. According to Washington Post Staff Writers Mike Allen and Rick Weiss, he stated that couples "’ought to be informed that, if you take 25 eggs, are you going to implant 25 embryos?
"’If you are not, what do you want to do with the embryos that are left over?’ he continued. ‘If there are embryos left over, do you know that there are people out there that want those embryos and will adopt them and implant them, and babies will result?’"
The President will not waver. In other words, a waffling John F. Kerry one won’t discover in the US President. Thank God. Can one horrifically imagine what America would be dealing with right now if Kerry were ensconced in the White House? Nightmare maximum, for certain.
"Bush reacted bluntly to the House's 238 to 194 vote, which fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said he has made it clear that he opposes ‘the use of federal moneys that end up destroying life.’
"’The Congress has made its position clear, and I've made my position clear,’ Bush said. ‘I will be vetoing the bill they send to me if it were to pass the United States Senate.’"
The press spoke of the President’s response as "blunt." What it was was not so much blunt as forthright in conviction. Mr. Bush has certain ethical convictions that are written in cement. They are not up for debate. They’re not negotiable.
That absolutely rankles the opposition. That is unsettling for doublespeak politicians, especially those in Congress, particularly those populating the Democratic Party.
Yet the President, in his second term with nothing to enhance but his moral balance continuing, stays the course. Of course, for the Red States, especially genuine Christians with the biblical ethic as their standard, Mr. Bush’s conclusions are exceptionally encouraging. It’s been a long, long time since America has had such a predictable moral base because of the man seated in the Oval Office.
With persons in wheelchairs, interviewed about their diseases, and celebrities waging personal wars against illnesses, the stem cell research proponents who oppose Mr. Bush continue their litany. All fine in a democracy with dialogue permissible.
Yet there are other ways to confront the illnesses without stem cell research as desired by the political liberals. And it is to those areas creative minds must set their intentions. Why does not the liberal press delve more deeply into the alternative routes?
"The White House did not embrace the search for a compromise. Spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush has drawn ‘a very bright line that taxpayer dollars should not be used to destroy life,’ and said it ‘would be difficult to blur that line’ with a middle-ground proposal.
"Rep. Jack Kingston (Ga.), vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, said party leaders accomplished their purpose by allowing the debate. He said he does not think the measure's backers would put much energy into overriding Bush's veto, which he called ‘trying to make water run uphill.’"
Fine.
US President George W. Bush is absolutely on target regarding stem cell research. Further, he’s totally consistent in his ethic and logic — no destruction of human life. It’s a "culture of life" that the President endorses. Nothing middle ground. Nothing less.
Consistent. Reasonable. Moral.
We are all embryos. It’s just that those of us who are debating the topic have a few more years on us than the human embryos in plastic dishes. But humans are we all. Embryos at one chronology or another we all are.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), along with his wife, Christine, is known for his support for adoption. According to Washington Post Staff Writers Mike Allen and Rick Weiss, he stated that couples "’ought to be informed that, if you take 25 eggs, are you going to implant 25 embryos?
"’If you are not, what do you want to do with the embryos that are left over?’ he continued. ‘If there are embryos left over, do you know that there are people out there that want those embryos and will adopt them and implant them, and babies will result?’"
The President will not waver. In other words, a waffling John F. Kerry one won’t discover in the US President. Thank God. Can one horrifically imagine what America would be dealing with right now if Kerry were ensconced in the White House? Nightmare maximum, for certain.
"Bush reacted bluntly to the House's 238 to 194 vote, which fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said he has made it clear that he opposes ‘the use of federal moneys that end up destroying life.’
"’The Congress has made its position clear, and I've made my position clear,’ Bush said. ‘I will be vetoing the bill they send to me if it were to pass the United States Senate.’"
The press spoke of the President’s response as "blunt." What it was was not so much blunt as forthright in conviction. Mr. Bush has certain ethical convictions that are written in cement. They are not up for debate. They’re not negotiable.
That absolutely rankles the opposition. That is unsettling for doublespeak politicians, especially those in Congress, particularly those populating the Democratic Party.
Yet the President, in his second term with nothing to enhance but his moral balance continuing, stays the course. Of course, for the Red States, especially genuine Christians with the biblical ethic as their standard, Mr. Bush’s conclusions are exceptionally encouraging. It’s been a long, long time since America has had such a predictable moral base because of the man seated in the Oval Office.
With persons in wheelchairs, interviewed about their diseases, and celebrities waging personal wars against illnesses, the stem cell research proponents who oppose Mr. Bush continue their litany. All fine in a democracy with dialogue permissible.
Yet there are other ways to confront the illnesses without stem cell research as desired by the political liberals. And it is to those areas creative minds must set their intentions. Why does not the liberal press delve more deeply into the alternative routes?
"The White House did not embrace the search for a compromise. Spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush has drawn ‘a very bright line that taxpayer dollars should not be used to destroy life,’ and said it ‘would be difficult to blur that line’ with a middle-ground proposal.
"Rep. Jack Kingston (Ga.), vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, said party leaders accomplished their purpose by allowing the debate. He said he does not think the measure's backers would put much energy into overriding Bush's veto, which he called ‘trying to make water run uphill.’"
Fine.
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