Playing Politics With Life and Death

It's disgusting and manipulative. Democrats are using government funding of embryonic stem-cell research as a wedge issue in this year's campaigns, parading around terminally ill people and hoping to tar pro-lifers as "anti-science". Story in the New York Times today, "Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. over stem cells". The Democrat candidate for Senate in Missouri, Claire McCaskill, portrays herself as enlightened, and her opponent as playing politics:

"There are people of principle who disagree with this form of research," Ms. McCaskill told her audience. "I respect their principles. But what I don't respect is someone dancing around science for political cover."

Already Governor Blagojevich has been issuing press releases about this issue, and in tandem with the pro-abortion feminists, enlisted the willing support of the Sun Times editorial board.

But who is really politicizing science? Have embryonic stem cells saved one single life? Who is really ignoring the scientific research and real medical advances that have arisen from other kinds of stem cells, the kind of research that does not involve destroying life? Who is acting in an ignorant and duplicitous manner?

Here's my earlier post, Hucksters of Human Life.

The Democrats are morally bankrupt. They join the Nazis and today's Chinese government in human cruelty, brutalizing the most innocent and most vulnerable. For them it's just another campaign issue, just some human raw material.

UPDATE: Tribune: "Governor slips funds to stem-cell studies", yesterday handing out $10 million in grants. Blagojevich disingenuously evaded legislative debate and approval, having put it in the budget last year under "scientific research". Sun Times story here. Apparently some grant recipients say they will "obtain stem cells from noncontroversial sources, such as blood, bone marrow and umbilical cord blood," underscoring that there are viable alternatives.