emperor's new moral clothes

george w bush cares about moral boundaries and will not cross them.

yeah. i know what you're thinking. i agree: he could've fooled me too.

or maybe it's just that if you have more than a few hundred cells in your body, plus a heart and a brain and skin and bones and a nervous system, you're no longer "innocent human life," so moral boundaries don't exist.

how else can we explain all the killing he hasn't even slightly hesitated to sign off on, both as governor and as president?

none of the counterfeit bioethicists who back him ever seem to recall that.

i'm not even going to say anything about all the suffering and untimely deaths that might be prevented if the federal govt funded research on a few of those never-to-be-adopted embryos.

that reminds me: let me respond to the way the wannabe absolute monarch surrounded himself with children who started out as adopted embryos, implying that all extra embryos created for in vitro fertilization could be adopted rather than destroyed.

the same argument used to get made against abortion.

forget it. all you need do to disabuse yourself of that fantasy is use the internet to find out how many adoption applications get filed each year.

there are nowhere near enough to provide homes for the additional babies, if they all got born. (approximately 400,000 fertilized embryos get discarded annually.)

which is why king georgie's logic is as invisible as his morality and ethics.