Obama chief: Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 14, 2009 | Aaron Klein

[Man50D]

TEL AVIV – There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

"It is silly to think that 'potential' is enough for moral concern. Sperm cells have 'potential' and (not to put too fine a point on it) most people are not especially solicitous about them," Sunstein wrote in a review of the 2003 book "Our Posthuman Future" by Francis Fukuyama.

Sunstein's comparison is not firm, however, as sperm cells, unlike embryos, do not have the potential to develop into life on their own.

Sunstein, nevertheless, expounded on his attitude toward human cloning in a 2002 paper for the Harvard Law Review, "Is there a constitutional right to clone?"

[Yossarian]

Even at “just a handful of cells”, those embyoes still rate higher than you and your boss, cASS.....

[Always Right]

And Obama’s regulatory czar is just a bag of crap

[olezip]

"If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning)," wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

What a moron! Can a moron be ignorant, too? I am astounded by such claptrap. Would he say the same thing if he had a handful of cells containing the AIDS virus?

Life begins at conception, Sunstein. That handful of cells could be the next Mozart, or our first woman president. That handful of cells is a complete human being; it is not snot from your nose. There is a difference.

[libertarian27]

"I never was a handful of cells, I'm a Czar"

[cartan]

human embryos, which develop into a baby, are “only a handful of cells,” argued President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

Come to think of it, so is Cass Sunstein…

[ought-six]

The man is evil on so many levels.

[pnh102]

Even worse was that some RINOs voted to confirm this sack of crap.

[Chode]

so's his brain... what's his point???

[muir_redwoods]

"'just a handful of cells'

I wonder how often Cass Sunstein has heard a woman describe a portion of his anatomy in just such terms.

But that's mean and I should be more generous. Don't wait for it.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Even at “just a handful of cells”, those embyoes still rate higher than you and your boss, cASS.....

And so do the sperm cells "most people are not especially solicitous" of.

[Venturer]

****I wonder how often Cass Sunstein has heard a woman describe a portion of his anatomy in just such terms.***

That would mean he was heterosexual I doubt that.

[Katarina]

LOL that is great. Hahahahaha