Article: “Obama’s ‘Science’ Fiction”
Writer: Charles Krauthammer
Source: The Washington Post
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Writer, Charles Krauthammer was on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics for five years and has always been in staunch opposition of Bush’s executive order that prohibits the use of embryonic stem cell research. While he was expecting to be thrilled by President Obama’s overturn of the order, he was in fact turned off that Obama didn’t put an restrictions on the subject. Krauthammer supports the use of discarded embryos from fertility clinics but under Obama’s decision it is possible for scientists to conduct stem cell research on cloned and noncloned sperm-and-egg derived human embryos solely for the purpose of dismemberment and use for parts.
While Krauthammer disagrees, I believe that Obama’s decision may be a direct result of intellectual laziness. Because Obama is a president taking over in a state of national financial and economic crisis, I believe that he is unable to put his full attention on anything but the economy. I find him irresponsible because I don’t think that he should have made such a serious decision without having access to the proper amount of time to think through his choice and the repercussions/consequences of his action.
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