Obama and Embryonic Stem Cell Research

UPDATE: Wisconsin Right to Life news release condemning Obama's executive order
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Barack Obama is making good on his promise to allow the federal funding of scientific experimentation that involves the destruction of human life.

From Politico:

President Barack Obama will issue a broad declaration Monday that science should be walled off from political interference in his administration, officials said Sunday.

In another break from his predecessor, Obama will also lift restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research and direct the National Institutes of Health to set new research guidelines within 120 days, the officials told reporters in a conference call detailing the forthcoming executive order on stem cell research and presidential memorandum on science.

...The long-awaited move on embryonic stem cells makes good on a campaign promise, but it is also certain to draw criticism from anti-abortion and religious groups that question the science and ethics behind the research.

Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House, said the focus on stem cell research was a distraction from the economy.

"Frankly, federal funding of embryonic stem cell research can bring on embryo harvesting, perhaps even human cloning that occurs," he said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "We don't want that. ... And certainly that is something that we ought to be talking about, but let's take care of business first. People are out of jobs."

Obama was a frequent critic of former President George W. Bush’s 2001 executive order, which said federal dollars could be spent for research only on stem cell lines created before Aug. 9, 2001. On the campaign trail, Obama accused the Bush administration of allowing political ideology to interfere with scientific decisions.

Here's the next in what's sure to be other executive orders from Obama disregarding the sanctity of human life.

Just days after his inauguration, Obama reversed the Mexico City Policy.

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option.

...Obama signed it quietly, without coverage by the media, late on Friday afternoon, a contrast to the midday signings with fanfare of executive orders on other subjects earlier in the week.

When Obama lifted the ban on federal funds used to perform and promote abortions abroad, he signaled that he was not going to protect and defend the weakest and most vulnerable in society.

That, of course, was just the beginning of his assault on human life.

Obama's executive order that federal funds be provided to pay for research that uses embryos, genetically complete human beings, as raw material is yet another indication that he intends to pursue his culture of death agenda.

Because of Obama's extremism, it's possible that taxpayer dollars will be applied to the "science" of human cloning.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle actually vetoed a ban on human cloning. Doyle doesn't have a problem with human clones being created in labs for the sole purpose of doing experimentation that demands their destruction.

In March 1997, Bill Clinton called human cloning a "troubling prospect."

"Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry," the president said Tuesday at a White House news conference to announce his decision. "It is matter of morality and spirituality as well."

Clinton also called on privately funded researchers to voluntarily implement a temporary moratorium on human cloning research "until our bioethics advisory committee and our entire nation has had time to... debate the ethical implications."

The success of Scottish scientists in cloning a sheep from an adult sheep -- and the subsequent announcement that Oregon scientists had successfully cloned monkeys from embryos -- prompted Clinton's decision.

No federal funds are currently being put toward human cloning experiments, but the president said he wanted to close possible loopholes in the present law by explicitly banning such funding.

..."There is much about cloning that we still do not know," he said.

The president said that he personally hoped the country would "respect this profound gift (life) and resist the temptation to replicate ourselves."

What restrictions on human cloning and experimentation, if any, does Obama plan on putting in place?

When he issues the declaration that science will be "walled off from political interference in his administration," what exactly does he mean?

Will the purposeful creation and subsequent destruction of human life be allowed in the name of science?

It's disingenuous for him to suggest that "political interference" is equivalent to ethical boundaries.

Does Obama plan on declaring that science will be walled off from moral considerations?

Science doesn't occur in a moral vacuum.

These new research guidelines that Obama is directing the National Institutes of Health to set will certainly be a break from the Bush administration's standards of respect for life.

Obama doesn't have a moral problem with labeling human embryos as raw material for research. He doesn't have ethical concerns about destroying human life and exploiting it for experimentation.

He calls that science.

And change.