Fulfilling his promise to move beyond the partisan divide that has rent Washington for years, the President signed an executive order advocating scientific research that faced no ethical objections by either the right or the left. The President strongly supports scientific research on "ethically responsible techniques" to derive pluripotent stem cells. He ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to "conduct and support" such research in an effort to overcome the false divide between ethics and science.
We can discern only one problem with the old order: the research in question is for techniques that don't require the abortion of children. If children aren't to be aborted, the new Administration isn't interested. That's why President Obama yesterday revoked President Bush's 2007 post-partisan measure with his own bitterly divisive, partisan order (see Sec. 5 (b); h/t: Second Hand Smoke).
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