Any administration that will give the slightest bit of consideration to the nutjobs who think frozen embryos should be put up for adoption is off its collective rocker and on the verge of seriously violating women's rights. When, oh when, will the moderate Republicans stand up to the crazy religious right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/na.../02embryo.html
While I think it's lovely that these parents are going to raise more little bible-thumping Wal-Mart shoppers (at the expense, perhaps, of adopting an already living child?), I think that conferring the same rights on a blastocyst that a fully formed human being able to survive outside of the womb or petri dish holds is terrible and bizarre social policy.
What's to follow? Mandatory criminal investigations of any woman who miscarries? These folks are entitled to their beliefs, and to them I say, if you are opposed to IVF, stem cell research, or abortion, then don't partake in any of them.



). I think the companies and organizations that do this kind of research can get their funding from other sources.


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