Is There a More Angry, Bitter Fraud than Charles Krauthammer?
If you read Krauthammer's column today--in which he analogized the repeal of the Bush stem cell policy to the experiments of Mengele--you would think that Obama had opened the door to the creation of a human Xerox machine.
There is a good reason that Obama didn't do it, and didn't need to do it. Congress has made it illegal, in a resolution that has recurred every year since 1996. Federal funds simply may not be used for this purpose. Krauthammer's article deliberately does not mention this point. (Yes, I said deliberately. His dishonesty is calculated.).
Here is the crux of it:
President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001). While I favor moving that moral line to additionally permit the use of spare fertility clinic embryos, President Obama replaced it with no line at all. He pointedly left open the creation of cloned -- and noncloned sperm-and-egg-derived -- human embryos solely for the purpose of dismemberment and use for parts.
The piece then goes on to lambast Obama's moral shortcomings in not addressing this in his new policy:
I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end.
On this, Obama has nothing to say. He leaves it entirely to the scientists. This is more than moral abdication. It is acquiescence to the mystique of "science" and its inherent moral benevolence. How anyone as sophisticated as Obama can believe this within living memory of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake (and coercive) South Korean stem cell research is hard to fathom.
To recap, the entire critique of Obama's position is that he's a moral monster because he didn't promise not to break the law.
Wanktastic.
