Embryonic water celling
Rhetorical arguments that used to justify enhanced interrogation techniques in the War on Terror are now being employed in the debate over embryonic stem cell research, a promising if yet unproven field.
But they’re not coming from the right. They’re coming from the left. Proponents of embryo research are insisting that because we’re in a life-and-death struggle—in this case, a scientific struggle—anyone who impedes that struggle by renouncing effective tools is irrational and irresponsible. The war on disease is like the war on terror: Either you’re with science, or you’re against it.
We mused back then how an individual could simultaneously be repulsed by non-lethal interrogation techniques while supporting the intentional destruction of life. Both could potentially save lives. But only one already has–and it didn’t kill anything in the process.
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