That's twice now that Crist had the opportunity to come down on the side of life and he demurred - OK, he downright said NO. That's it for him.
Also got this in the same email:
Embryo destruction is worse than abortion
by Professor Richard Stith
Valparaiso (Ind) University School of Law
(LifeSiteNews.com) -- Funding of destructive embryo research is actually worse than legal abortion.
One might argue that abortion involves not only killing but betrayal; parents destroy a child entrusted to them, but the scientist who dissects an embryo is not harming his own offspring.
Yet, someone choosing abortion need not be completely set against life. She typically does not want abortion with all of her heart. Rather, she is filled with panic; if circumstances were better, she would let her child live.
By contrast, the scientist seeking funding for embryonic stem cell research wants to destroy life - and convince the public to pay for it. His lethal aim is not even contingent in the sense that "if only there were another possible route to cures," no embryo killing would occur.
Embryonic stem cell research is wholly dehumanizing. The embryos become resources to be calculated and consumed. They are degraded before they are destroyed. Like human embryos created by cloning, they do not die as unwanted children, or even as human beings, but as things to be used and used up. No greater negation of human dignity is possible.
Full column at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06071901.html