Matt Blunt Ex-Communicated, Not Allowed In Right To Life Club House
Missouri Right to Life declares Blunt no longer 'pro-life':
But we at DMB2008, some of us anyway, are particularly anti-life anyway.
Regardless, we support Matt Blunt in his desire to make Missouri a science-friendly place for research even at the expense of his support from knee-jerks. It's leadership, and it indicates integrity, that Matt Blunt is not in the pocket of even the most powerful of the Republican lobbying groups.
Missouri Right to Life says it no longer considers Republican Gov. Matt Blunt "pro-life" because of his support for early stem cell research.We here at DMB2008 don't find a disconnection between wanting to prevent abortions and wanting continued exploration of scientific techniques that can improve actual life instead of continuing to champion potential life within clumps of cells which might or might not mature into living humans.
The declaration this week by one of the state's more powerful lobbying groups deepens a fissure with the self-described "pro-life" governor that formed during the past legislative session.
Although Blunt supported anti-abortion legislation, he opposed efforts by Missouri Right to Life to ban a form a stem cell research known as therapeutic cloning. More recently, Blunt expressed his support for a proposed ballot initiative that specifically allows the procedure.
But we at DMB2008, some of us anyway, are particularly anti-life anyway.
Regardless, we support Matt Blunt in his desire to make Missouri a science-friendly place for research even at the expense of his support from knee-jerks. It's leadership, and it indicates integrity, that Matt Blunt is not in the pocket of even the most powerful of the Republican lobbying groups.
posted by Brian J. at 7:21 PM
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We here at DMB2008 don't find a disconnection between wanting to prevent abortions and wanting continued exploration of scientific techniques that can improve actual life instead of continuing to champion potential life within clumps of cells which might or might not mature into living humans.
The only logical and medically scientific point at which we can define that a human being has been created, is when an embryo is created. That is where I draw the line and it is the usual pro-life position. It is not knee-jerk. Matt Blunt has decided that some embryos are not worth protecting from destruction. These same embryos would develop into regular human beings if implanted. Destroying them to harvest stem cells is morally equivalent to implanting them and allowing them to grow for a while, then harvesting organs, limbs, etc., which most people would consider an abomination.
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