Bush And Kerry/Edwards Are Tweedle Dumb And Tweedle Dumber On Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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Dear Friends of the Constitutional Republic,

There's an old joke that reminds me of the Republican and Democrat parties. I'll try to tell it tastefully. There was a man who was attempting to procure the services of a woman.

He asked her: "Would you have a relationship with me for $1,000?"
"Yes."
"How about $500?"
"Yes."
"How about $100?"
"Yes."
"For $10?"
She replies, angrily: "No!, what do you think I am?!"
He answers: "We’ve already established that; we’re just arguing about the price."

And so it is on all too many issues with the Democrats and Republicans. In principle, they are the same. They're just arguing about the price.

I'm thinking specifically about something that was in the news recently --- embryonic stem cell research.

The "Washington Post" and "New York Times" have run stories about First Lady Laura Bush's defense of her husband and the "limits" he's imposed on embryonic stem cell research. The President has okayed, for the first time, Federal funding of 78 of these embryonic stem cell lines, these cells residing inside five-day-old human embryos. Mr. Bush said on August 9, 2001, that he was limiting such research from human embryos already destroyed by that date.

Mrs. Bush's press secretary, Gordon Johndroe, says she, like the President, believes human embryonic stem cell research is a "moral issue that has to be dealt with."

Senators John Kerry and John Edwards support --- with no numerical limitation --- embryonic stem cell research. Kerry says: "We’re going to lift the ban on [human embryonic] stem cell research." With no mention of "morality," he adds: "We’re going to listen to our scientists and stand up for science. We’re going to say yes to knowledge, yes to discovery, and yes to a new era of hope for all Americans" --- except, of course, the innocent, unborn human beings who are killed to harvest their embryonic cells.

Edwards, saying he was "sad" because of Mr. Bush’s limitation on Federal-funding of research on human embryonic stem cells, endorsed --- with no numerical limitation --- using Federal tax dollars to study human embryonic stem cells from fertility clinic human embryos no longer wanted by parents, those human embryos "that would otherwise be discarded or frozen indefinitely."

See what I mean?

In principle, there is no difference between President Bush and Kerry/Edwards on Federally-funded human embryonic stem cell research. Mr. Bush and Kerry/Edwards are just arguing about "the price" to be paid. They agree on Federal-funding of this hideous, grotesque, anti-life research. They differ only as to how many dead, innocent, unborn human beings ought to be the victims of this "research."

As noted, Kerry has said, regarding this barbaric human embryonic stem cell research idea, that we must say yes to "knowledge" and "discovery." Well, I agree, but in a very different way.

What Mr. Bush and Kerry/Edwards need to have "knowledge" of and "discover" is that human embryos are --- every one of them --- innocent human beings made in the image of God. Thus, they cannot be killed for any reason!

If I am elected President, I will do everything within my Constitutional power to see that there will be no research of any kind, funded by anybody, on human embryos.