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Let's see now. The destruction of an embryo is "murder", according to Tony Snow and other Bush acolytes. The Bush administration has made no effort to criminalize nor to otherwise prohibit privately funded stem cell research, even though this research presupposes the destruction of embryos.
In vitro fertilization commonly uses a much greater number of embryos than can successfully be implanted; the remainder are frozen until they deteriorate or are otherwise destroyed. IVF is an elective procedure which costs tens of thousands of dollars, often without great prospects for success. Does the Cheerleader-in-chief regard the doctors and technicians who participate in this procedure to be "murderers"? Are the prospective parents who fund the procedures facilitators of or, more pointedly, accessories before the fact of "murder", i.e., the destruction of excess embryos? Has anyone in the Bush administration sought to prosecute these malefactors or to amend existing statutes in order to authorize such prosecutions?
Is the President's silence related to the fact that doctors and heterosexual yuppies with tens of thousands of dollars of discretionary income are part of the natural constitutency of the Rethuglican Party?
