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Author Topic:   Embryo ethics: 400,000 Bush Babies
Dan Carroll
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Message 16 of 18 (395462)
04-16-2007 4:48 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Taz
04-16-2007 4:28 PM


Re: Sandel's argument is compelling
It's called political compromise. Bush wants to ban it, but at the same time he knows there is no chance in hell an outright ban of all future stem cell research would get past congress. So, he does the next best thing and take away the fundings.
I'll lay down hard money that Bush doesn't give a crap about it one way or the other, but knows that making it a political issue will generate votes.

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Taz
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Message 17 of 18 (395468)
04-16-2007 5:19 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Dan Carroll
04-16-2007 4:48 PM


Re: Sandel's argument is compelling
Dan Carroll writes:
I'll lay down hard money that Bush doesn't give a crap about it one way or the other, but knows that making it a political issue will generate votes.
I've been saying this for years. Bush and his ilks always manage to come up with one bullshit issue after another to generate votes from the fundamentalists and evangelicals. After all, fundamentalism and evangelical christians are the fastest growing christian groups in the united states. In fact, I'm willing to put hard money down betting that Bush and his ilk won last time because they managed to rally up enough christians to demonize gay people.

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obvious Child
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Message 18 of 18 (395492)
04-16-2007 7:24 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Taz
04-16-2007 4:39 PM


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Obviously, you just scanned through my posts rather than actually read them. The point I was trying to make was that just because I support free speech doesn't mean I'm going to go out and speak out about every free speech related topic under the sun.
I still don't understand your point in how it is even relevant. President Bush made specific claims about his platform to his voting base. His actions conflict with these statements. Therefore he is not consistant in his claims and his actual behavior. Furthermore, you are not president nor are able to have a key role in any banning of a particular action one can take.
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Bush has made it blatently obvious that he is anti-abortion.
Questionable. He made statements to get votes. Whether or not he actually is, is something else. Bush has stated he was for banning abortion and was for actions to overturn roe vs. wade. He has flip flopped from his previous stance. This would seem to indicate he did what Romney is currently doing: aligning his views to match his voting base.
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Now, the question is has Bush spoken out in favor of IVF?
He's spoken out in favor of people adopting what he calls "snowflakes" or the frozen embryos. Bush has praised IVF.
He's a hypocrite.
If Bush was serious about his whole "culture of life" he'd be on the warpath to stop IVF. But teletubbies is on.

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