I don’t know why I even torture myself going to CNN.com. You know you’re not going to get accurate news, but like a moth to the flame… Anyway, look at how they give the benefit of the doubt to Obama on overturning the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. This is a stealth abortion issue. I have an internal quandary over what to do with embryos created for implantation, because I do consider them life. So if you throw them out, it’s not right, but that doesn’t get me to “ah, let’s do research on them”. So if you want to, fund it yourself. But not with my tax dollars.
So back to the topic of CNN’s News Tilt, look at how when Obama chooses a (stealth) pro-abortion cause, it’s separating politics from science. Other than answering “he’s the messiah and we don’t question him,” how do you explain that? If there’s a legitimate moral issue, how is he separating the issue? He is, in fact, inserting politics into science by signing legislation making federal dollars go to research on them (link):
Obama moves to separate politics and science
UPDATED: 06:03 PM EDT 03.09.09
(CNN) 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.
Bush twice vetoed legislation that would have expanded federally funded embryonic stem cell research. Those siding with Bush say scientific advances allow researchers to conduct groundbreaking research without destroying human embryos.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told The Washington Post he thought Obama’s policy reversal on stem-cell research was an “ideological sideshow.”
“It is dangerous for the Obama administration to pick a wide series of fights,” Gingrich told the newspaper. “Each of these fights simply drains energy away and increases the coalition which decides it has a collective interest in stopping everything.”
Obama also signed a memorandum that directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy “to develop a strategy for restoring scientific integrity to government decision-making.”
Obama’s action is part of a broader effort to separate science and politics, White House domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes said Sunday.
But it’s not just on the issue of stem cells where science and politics collide.
In his first weeks in office, Obama has taken ambitious steps to untangle what has been an intertwined relationship.
The Bush administration came under frequent criticism from environmentalists who warned the president wasn’t doing enough to lessen what they saw as the damaging impact the United States has on the globe.
Within a week of taking office, Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to review a California application to regulate greenhouse gases and told his Department of Transportation to begin implementing fuel efficiency standards passed last year but not implemented by the Bush administration.
If the EPA grants a waiver allowing California to set its own emissions standards, the nation’s most populous state will be allowed to require automakers to produce trucks and cars that get better mileage than what is required under the current national standard. Thirteen other states could take similar action.
The Bush administration rejected California’s application, agreeing with automakers that the creation of another set of rules regarding pollution standards for some states would be confusing and unenforceable.
In Obama’s recent speech to Congress, the president said the United States will double its supply of renewable energy in three years. To do so, he’s calling on a new class of workers to be trained in environmental fields. Green jobs training programs will get $500 million from his stimulus package.
OK, so if you’re not a socialist, why is government responsible for funding research? Why won’t anyone talk about the moral ramifications? If you truly fully believe that life begins at conception, our “dear leader” has in his first fifty days feverishly announced that the government will be funding abortions at home and abroad, and will have taxpayers on the hook to create lives to destroy them in the name of science. That’s a whole lot of souls served up and corpses/parts thrown in the trash and we’re all responsible (really, technically, the Chinese are morally responsible for funding our debt).
Oh, and in the last paragraph, it says that Obama will fund $500M worth of green jobs training programs to double the supply of renewable energy in the next three years. Did you notice that? How will job training achieve that goal? A skeptical media would ask that. Are you going to have “X Megawatts” of renewable energy online by training people? How? It’s not possible to get the intended result from the promised action. But who freaking cares- Obama’s President!