Leading up to tomorrow’s ill timed vote on a stem cell funding measure, the House Democratic leadership wanted to offer its members some cover from charges they were friendly to human cloning. So they scheduled a vote tonight on a so-called cloning ban that actually failed to ban cloning. Using a tried and true semantic trick, the bill defined human cloning as the transfer of a cloned embryo to a woman’s womb, rather than the creation of that embryo, thereby protecting the practice of cloning (and destroying) human embryos for research while pretending to ban it.
The fact that Speaker Pelosi thought it was necessary to do this already signaled a peculiar desperation on this issue, and left a lot of us scratching our heads. But the results of the vote are just downright amazing. The Speaker brought the bill up under suspension, which means it would have needed a two-thirds vote to pass. Not only did it not get two-thirds of the members, it didn’t even get a simple majority. The bill failed, with 204 votes in favor and 213 against—a full 74 votes short of the margin needed to pass.[...]
None of this makes stem cell politics a huge winner for Republicans, of course, but somehow Speaker Pelosi just might have found a way to lose the Democrats’ edge on the issue. She's that good.
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Don't need to scratch your heads on this one- they are afraid to alienate the catholic vote.
The archbishop of California is already demanding that the U.S. government give citizenships to Mexican wetbacks. (Three guesses what religion they are- and the first two don't count).
While on the Canukistani homefront- the froggos in Montreal demanded 20 million dollars for 'security' for the upcoming pope's visit to the frankaphone whatchamacallit- let's see if Harper caves like a five-dollar accordian on this one.
Dang tootin', the cloning of politicians should be banned. ;-)
Not so sure on that one Texas. If we could get a couple viable Winston Churchill cells I would not be adverse to that. Him and........... well ok just Winston.
Yawn.
You can kill your fetus so creating a frankenfetus doesn't sound like that much of a stretch...
davie -
There is no Archbishop of California. There are at least two Archibishops in California (Los Angeles and San Francisco), and, quite possibly, more.
the refusal by pres bush is not to stop stem cell research but not to have it funded by taxpayers. there is and will continue to be stem cell research in the u.s. by universities, teaching hospitals, drug companies etc, as long as they pay the costs without taxpayer contibrutions. they can then reap rewards if there is any success. so far no real success.
I'm sitting here wondering about davie; is he a troll or just a catholic-basher? Maybe both?
the bill defined human cloning as the transfer of a cloned embryo to a woman’s womb, rather than the creation of that embryo, thereby protecting the practice of cloning (and destroying) human embryos for research while pretending to ban it.
I've read from a different source at NRO that California's law (courtesy of Arnold) on cloning would even allow for implantation as long as "it" wasn't brought to term. And the Klan doesn't do a very good job of following the Church hierarchy, Silicon Valley Jim and Bcer, is a likely explanation.