"Romney has decided to support experimentation on surplus frozen embryos from in-vitro fertilization procedures."
- National Review Online 2/11/2005
This is really a slippery slope issue. We all know that the embryos are harvested human beings. How could he possibly say that his view on abortion is in contrast to his view on ebryonic research?
Abortion is probably the bottom of my concerns for the next election. Call me a rino or not-conservative, I don't care. Abortion is a 30 year old issue that really needs to just drop off the radar for elections in lieu of quite frankly much more pressing matters.
I don't care what people's stance on abortion is. Pro-life, Pro-choice doesn't matter to me because abortion is a DEAD issue for both sides, like it or not. The only people it's not dead for is hardcore rights clinging to the hope that maybe they can get Roe V. Wade overturned and hardcore lefts worrying that the right will get it overturned. In the end nobody honestly cares except the fringes on both sides.
Lets say just for S&G's the SCOTUS does manage to overturn Roe V. Wade sometime that is just gonna throw the issue right back to the States. Many if not most of those States are still going to have legalized abortions for some time until the legislatures enact new laws locally or people put up some propositions or State constitutional amendments.
Nobody is EVER going to gain or lose my vote based on their stance on abortion. I don't care enough to research embryonic stem cell research to make an informed opinion there. Either way, again more pressing issues for our nation then embryonic stem cells.