I would argue that it needed to be done, in order to create an alternative way to do things. Otherwise there would of been whining and complaining forever.
Now, it’s a moot point.
It needed to be done because it was the moral thing to do.The whole episode was nothing more that political posturing. I would much rather be on the side of morality than that of rank political posturing because of my belief is the purity of abortion. This is what the argument was about. President Bush was and is correct. Those who got in a freezy to push ahead never want another way of doing their research. I am not speaking necessarily of the scientific community as a whole but of the leftist politics and world view. It is vile.