You’d think religious objections to scientific research would have ended with the invention of penicillin.
As President Obama reversed the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be “based on facts, not ideology.”
The president on Monday signaled a clear shift in tone from the Bush administration on a broad range of scientific issues.
Obama overturned an order signed by President Bush in 2001 that barred the National Institutes of Health from funding research on embryonic stem cells beyond using 60 cell lines that existed at that time.
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I’m a big supporter of Obama and have been since he began his run, but it’s unfortunately a common disingenuous statement that this sort of decision is ‘based on facts, not ideology’. Disagree with its position on the timeline or not, the belief that life starts at conception is no more an ‘ideology’ than the belief that it doesn’t. Bush may have inappropriately couched his actions (big shocker there), but his manners don’t need to reflect the rest of the people who agree with that particular belief (or any other for that matter).
brian
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