... or people with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or quadriplegics, as made evident by his veto of federally supported stem cell research. Apparently it's okay for those people to die prematurely but not fertilized eggs with no consciousness.
A guy called into the Diane Rehm show yesterday and pointed out that there are cultures in which a child's life is believed to begin when the mother decides to try to conceive; Catholics believed masturbation is a sin because it spills seed without the possibility of conception.
In typical conservative fashion, Bush has demonstrated his belief that life is only sacred until we turn 18 and can be sent to die in a pointless war.
My favorite part of this whole fiasco were the "snowflake" babies cooing in the background. These are the kids of parents who also believe that unborn life is more sacred than living, conscious, feeling humans - why else would they adopt embryos instead of children trapped in our horribly flawed foster care system or some third world orphanage?
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