Posted by
Stefano on Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:29:01 PM
I ran across this video on Hot Air (
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/12/video-bill-clinton-doesnt-understand-human-biology/ ). I'm posting it here for your convenience in viewing it. It is truly astonishing that a former President and Rhodes Scholar could be this ignorant on a crucial aspect of the embryonic stem cell issue. The Dems will probably use this video as a hammer to compel comprehensive sex education for pre-schoolers. This also lends credence to the notion that a little education of the populace could make a great difference in turning hearts to the life affirming side.
Here are some interesting comments I ran across on various websites:
On Jillstanek.com
A couple commenters thought Clinton meant to say "implanted," but never mind the fact he said "fertilized" 6x, the above interview makes clear he meant "fertilized," which he defined as "to bring a life into being."... At any rate, substituting "implanted" would render Clinton's statements more nonsensical than they already are.
From another blog I found that the word Mr. Clinton probably had in mind was implanted.
If so, did he mean:
(1) We shouldn't carry on the research inside a woman's uterus after implanting the embryo?
(2) We shouldn't create the embryo through IVF, implant it, and then take it out and use it for ESCR?
(3) We shouldn't remove naturally conceived and implanted embryos for ESCR?
From HotAir.com
Clinton isn’t looking to be scientifically accurate, any more than most abortion supporters are. Abortion isn’t a scientific issue at all, really; it’s an emotional one - “I’m pregnant and I don’t want to be pregnant anymore.” Supporters of embryonic stem cell research are just trying to put a scientific veneer over the abortion process by giving embryo destruction a “good” name. Clinton’s abysmal understanding of the fundamental underlying science of embryo development shows just how thin that veneer truly is.
posted by inmypajamas
also on hotair.com:
Gosh, I’d like to hope that even my 10th grade biology students would know better than this.
posted by
Bob's Kid
also on hotair.com
Imagine if Palin had given that interview that way! Just imagine!
also on hotair.com
Human beings are formed by some mysterious process, whereas a clump of cells - much like a cancer - becomes a human upon contact with air approximately 9 months after initially metastasizing.
posted by
lorien1973