Rush To Judgement
Well, it's not like we didn't already know Rush was a major a-hole... well, considering the legions of fans this bottom feeder has, I suppose we all didn't know that...
Oh well, even Ted Bundy had a fan club... Anyway, Rush Limbaugh, in reaction to Michael J. Fox's political ad asking for voters to support a candidate who was strongly for stem cell research, Lambasted the actor for his ad, stating: "He is moving around and shaking, and it is purely an act", and accused the actor of either not taking his meds or of exagerating the effects of Parkinsons Disease to get voters to sympathize with his plight and vote for his candidate.
Excuse me, but aside from the obviously assinine arrogance of such statements (which he has since apologized for), why isn't this guy in jail? Robert Downey Jr did hard time for his drug addiction, how is it that Rush has managed to get caught three times, once in a friggin airport with a load of oxy's, and not gone to the big house? If it were you or I, we'd be sharing soap on a rope with a serial rapist!
The other issue for me is the Right's continued mischaracterization of Embryonic stem cell research as "destroying life for science", claiming that adult stem cells offer just as much vital science.
First of all, embryonic stem cell research doesn't destroy life anymore than menstruation destroys viable eggs. The embryos with which the stem cells come from are not destroyed for the benefit of science, science is making use of something that is going to be thrown away anyway. It's just a backdoor attempt to curb abortion.
I find it rather ironic that no one has attacked a fertility clinic yet. I guess the irony is lost on the self-righteous since the term "fertility" implies "life". True, parents are seeking to bring life into the world, but when a fertility doctor fertilizes and cultivates eggs in vitro for implantation into the mother, they generally hedge their bets by fertilizing a number of eggs with the father's sperm, usually four eggs for every one desired child.
Potential parents generally only want one child at a time, so what happens to the now viable embryos after the "winner" is chosen? Flush.
And yes, I can see the potential for embryo farms and I agree with the Right that such a thing would be not so good, but that's where legislation would come in, not the outright banning of legitimate research based on religious and moral mumbo-jumbo.
Well, it's not like we didn't already know Rush was a major a-hole... well, considering the legions of fans this bottom feeder has, I suppose we all didn't know that...
Oh well, even Ted Bundy had a fan club... Anyway, Rush Limbaugh, in reaction to Michael J. Fox's political ad asking for voters to support a candidate who was strongly for stem cell research, Lambasted the actor for his ad, stating: "He is moving around and shaking, and it is purely an act", and accused the actor of either not taking his meds or of exagerating the effects of Parkinsons Disease to get voters to sympathize with his plight and vote for his candidate.
Excuse me, but aside from the obviously assinine arrogance of such statements (which he has since apologized for), why isn't this guy in jail? Robert Downey Jr did hard time for his drug addiction, how is it that Rush has managed to get caught three times, once in a friggin airport with a load of oxy's, and not gone to the big house? If it were you or I, we'd be sharing soap on a rope with a serial rapist!
The other issue for me is the Right's continued mischaracterization of Embryonic stem cell research as "destroying life for science", claiming that adult stem cells offer just as much vital science.
First of all, embryonic stem cell research doesn't destroy life anymore than menstruation destroys viable eggs. The embryos with which the stem cells come from are not destroyed for the benefit of science, science is making use of something that is going to be thrown away anyway. It's just a backdoor attempt to curb abortion.
I find it rather ironic that no one has attacked a fertility clinic yet. I guess the irony is lost on the self-righteous since the term "fertility" implies "life". True, parents are seeking to bring life into the world, but when a fertility doctor fertilizes and cultivates eggs in vitro for implantation into the mother, they generally hedge their bets by fertilizing a number of eggs with the father's sperm, usually four eggs for every one desired child.
Potential parents generally only want one child at a time, so what happens to the now viable embryos after the "winner" is chosen? Flush.
And yes, I can see the potential for embryo farms and I agree with the Right that such a thing would be not so good, but that's where legislation would come in, not the outright banning of legitimate research based on religious and moral mumbo-jumbo.
posted by Guy at 10:25 PM
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