three amazing newspaper nuggets on Obama's stem-cell position

Here's the AP's Philip Ellliott:

President Barack Obama's announcement Monday that he is overturning his predecessor's policies toward embryonic stem cells also will include a broad declaration that science -- not political ideology -- would guide his administration.

Science, not political ideology? Huh? Nope, nothing to do with political ideology at all. And nothing to do with religious beliefs.


From the same article, here's Dr. Curt Civin, "whose research allowed scientists to isolate stem cells" and who now serves as the founding director of the University of Maryland Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine:

We've got eight years of science to make up for. Now, the silly restrictions are lifted.

Silly? Maybe "unfortunate" or even "unreasonable". But "silly"? Only a silly person would put it that way.


From the AP's Ben Feller and Lauran Meergaard in the Globe & Mail (hat tip: Kentucky Post):

Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science, U.S. President Barack Obama plans to lift restrictions Monday on taxpayer-funded research using embryonic stem cells.

Anybody catch the irony here? Ben and Lauran consider it "potentially life-saving science" to be allowed to destroy embryos.