Pro-abortion forces have hailed President Obama's decision to federally fund embryonic stem cell research with good reason. It is a huge victory for those who have no reverence for the sanctity of human life, and no desire for ethics to play any part in scientific research.
Obama's actions not only overturn Bush's policies preventing the taxpayer funding of embryo-destroying research. They go a step further in preventing funding for alternative methods of creating stem cells. Over the past years scientists have made incredible advances in this area, thus making the type of research Obama pushes for unnecessary. Obama's policies, pending decisions by the NIH which will surely be extraordinarily permissive, open the doors for not only embryo-destroying research but, in fact, a level of ethical abandonment that we cannot currently determine. But surely, things such as human cloning are now at the very least on the table.
In doing these things, Obama replaces Bush policies that not only allowed funding for existing stem cell lines, but also provided funding for alternative methods, where we have made great progress. The debate has never been about "scientific progress" but in fact about the serious, grave ethical questions we need to ask in any such endeavor. Obama's decision in effect renders this deep and contentious debate irrelevant in favor of allowing scientists an ethics-free playground with human life. Once again Obama has demonstrated himself as a true radical, not only pro-choice but completely dismissive of human life.
We are one step closer to the Brave New World. Human life is made cheaper today; more people have lost their basic right to life. In the question of basic respect for life Obama has failed spectacularly, siding with the most radical pro-abortion forces. It is indeed a sad day for the human race.