This is well said... but it is not really the crux of the matter... it simply puts the lie to the issue as it is being presented. IMHO this 'embryonic cell research' issue is cleverly hiding the real core issue: public funding for abortion. Once the public is fooled into accepting public funding for embryonic cell research they will find they have approved public funding for destruction of embryos ... which can only be interpreted as abortion... exactly what happened in Missouri in the last election.
I am personally opposed to abortion... but that is not the issue we are discussing. The issue is that the public is being scammed into thinking they are voting for fabulously promising health-care research, when in reality there is no such promise: just the same old same old 'how can we fool them today?'
People should be allowed to express their views in the voting booth [pro- or con- abortion], not treated like lemmings.
I agree all the way. I'm a "hot button" pusher and I was engaging in a fan dance in snowpants with those other two bozos. We all knew this has nothing to do with "state of the art" research labs, research in general, brilliant Caucasians working in Singapore for beernuts or space shuttles. We all knew what we were talking about and I believed that I had just smoked out a couple liberals.