Dickey-Wicker and more

Obama has signed an omnibus spending bill containing a ban on embryonic stem cell funding, just two days after his gala photo-op approval of it. The funding bill apparently contains the same language that it has for the past decade, language called Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which specifically forbids federal funding for embryonic destruction. Amateur hour continues.

And an article by Terrence P. Jeffrey at CNSNEWS.com outlines the underlying agenda of the “anti-cloning” remarks made by Obama. Obama made specific remarks that sounded remarkably “cloaked in morality” (as Saul Alinsky said), until one looks closely at both the remarks and the relative environment within which they are made.

In this case, the remarks specifically refer to cloning for purposes of reproduction. This leaves open the possibility of other purposes, such as those in Senate Bill 812 of 2008, by Feinstein and Hatch, making it OK to clone yourself to get stem cells, killing the embryo in a few weeks. The reason for the cloning is to overcome the inherent rejection, tumor and cancer issues that come with embryonic stem cells when introduced into a person other than the donor.

So, in fact, Obama was disingenuously defining the pathway for more cloning to come, clones that would, by definition, be killed.

The desperate fight to kill embryos seems needless, even futile, until one considers the human valuation issue. The first steps in any process are necessarily small and hard fought when they go against the ethic and history of a people. The ethic is being worn down by constant corrosion from the relativist Left; the history is largely unknown to an increasingly illiterate, maleducated populace. In this environment it is possible for a president to redefine (reverse) an ethic on national TV and not be held to account.