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[DesertRhino]

I thought it was above his paygrade.

[wardaddy]

Krauthammer sounds ambiguous about abortion.

[zeestephen]

I know this is off the main topic, but...

Do plants have stem cells?

In theory, is it possible to grow an apple or a marijuana bud in a petri dish?

No soil, no pests, no stalks or leaves, no weather.

In theory, it seems like a productivity miracle.

[April Lexington]

Chuckie really bothers me. All during the election he was trashing McCain and after every debate he'd conclude McCain had lost. He seriously deflated the GOP filed workers and supporters. Now that Obama has won, Chuckie is trashing him. I think Chuckie is so smart that he's confused. I really don't give a rip what he has to say. He helped elect Obama. Now... he should just shut up. He is making himself look quite hypocritical.

[dynoman]

“Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206305/posts

[freeangel]

On the other hand, 0 IS the moral equivalent of a hangnail.

[Quiller]

"if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough."

Think? Why should anti-Christian liberals think when they have their daily sound bite to think for them?

[TalBlack]

“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.”

Mr. Krauthammer is not religious but he apparently can't stomach the implications of being so.

A corpse is given respectful treatment because it is the earthly remains of a Human Being. It represents all that is left upon this earth of a Life granted by God. There is no reason a ‘thing’, a collection of cells, that has in Mr. Krauthammers view no ‘person hood’ should be accorded treatment any different than an excised tumor. None. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way. One would think that a guy in a wheelchair with a name like 'Krauthammer' would be aware of the danger of leaving the authority for conferring 'person hood' to men.

[Cyber Ninja]

I like reading Charles Krauthammer, but

don't over think it

egg + sperm = fully complete human

just wait, and you'll see...

[kindred]

The whole argument of allowing embryonic stem cell research for science and healing is a lie much like evolution and global warming. The only reason dems want stem cell research is to propagate the evil sin of abortion, a hate filled act of the ignorant mind of those who live in darkness and is worse than slavery, which cost over 400,000 American citizens to go to their death.
Abortion is no less a sin then slavery and is the murder of young children now funded by taxpayers money.
Sin always brings death and judgment of God upon those who hate his right ways.

[yazoo]

“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.”

Damn, this statement, from a man I respect, really is troubling. If personhood or whatever he calls being a human being does not begin at conception he needs to offer an opinion on when it does begin. This is the quandary all pro abortionists are required to answer if they are going to defend abortion. And, if life does not begin at conception then the embryo does not deserve any more respect than a hangnail or an appendix. After all, if it is not a person, it is just a glob of tissue, much like an appendix and deserves no rights.

[aruanan]

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

Sorry, Chuck, personhood is not "conferred," it is inherent.

[SunkenCiv]

Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research
Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It
CNS News | March 13, 2009 | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 03/13/2009 8:12:20 PM PDT by Between the Lines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206305/posts

[snip] On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.” [end]

[GVnana]

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.

Not really, Charles. History tells us that doctors can be great fascist lapdogs.

[mojitojoe]

“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.”
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This is so disgusting .... I have no words. We have a deranged Communist beast in the WH.

[adorno]

Dr. James Thomson, the discoverer of embryonic stem cells, said "if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Obama clearly has not.

Obama clearly knows what he is doing. He clearly knows the immorality of embryonic stem cell research. And he clearly knows, as do most democrats, that abortion is the murdering of a human life.

Why strain to excuse and confuse the issue, Mr Krauthammer? It is very clear that everything that Obama has undertaken to do has been what they could not do in the last 8 years. It is clear that they will use any excuse and any crisis to pursue what most thinking people would not under "normal" circumstances.