In rescinding the Federal restrictions on Embryonic stem cell research, Obama realized that there is another fundamental requirement: a new ethic is required also. George W. Bush had actually left the door open for this by compromising the original ethic of life, that from "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
Bush allowed certain embryos to be killed, even while celebrating the "snowflake children" who had been born and were originally among those frozen embryos. This ethic of relativism allowed a somewhat financially restricted pursuit of Embryonic stem cell killing and exploitation.
Obama, through an Executive Order, has directed the NIH to rewrite the ethic statement concerning Embryonic stem cell exploitation. His statement reflects this: ideology must not interfere with science. Obama's idea of morality is that it is flexible ideology that must be bent to fit around science and scientism. The consequentialism is unmistakable: science justifies anything; just change the ethical statement to match.
What does it say about a nation when its basic ethic of life can be nullified by a "new ethic" created by a pen stroke? The idea of "new ethics" is symptomatic of a Federal Adminstration by relativist, consequentialist, Atheist elitists who feel empowered with self-endowed personal authority to eliminate previous ethics and morality in favor of their own opinions, which they decree to be: the new ethic.
What could possibly be more disturbing?
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