Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox

[Madtown]

I'm of the firm belief that anyone who opposes ESC on the basis that an embryo is human life and thus shouldn't be destroyed should also oppose in vitro fertility treatments, since that also results in the destruction/storage of embryos:

"Most stem cell researchers use embryos that were created but not used in in vitro fertility treatments to derive new stem cell lines. Most of these embryos are slated to be destroyed, or stored indefinitely. In the United States alone, there are at least 400,000 such embryos."

Having several friends from HS who are very Religious Right (sigh), I never hesitate to point this out to them. They generally stutter and then say "whatever" and stop talking.

I have no problem with someone being against ESC. Paraphrasing MJF in the interview he did after Rush's attack on him, if someone has thought about the issue spiritually, emotionally, intelligently, weighed the issue properly, and come to rest on the position that embryos are life and that they morally oppose the destruction of embryos, then more power to them. As long as they can respect me for disagreeing with them after a similar amount of deliberation, then I can respect them. No name-calling. No derision or anger. Frustration, maybe.

But if they don't also oppose in vitro, then they're hypocrites. In vitro destroys far more embryos then ESC research would. Yet you almost never hear of a group trying to ban in vitro.

So basically, wacki, I'm saying that if you do end up deciding you oppose ESC, then you have to oppose in vitro, or you're a moron. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]