Protecting the Stem Cell from Research
By Byron LaMasters
Rick Perry will protect our stem cells from research as long as he's governor:
Republican Gov. Rick Perry reaffirmed his anti-abortion stance Saturday and, in a stark disagreement with potential rival Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said he doesn't support embryonic stem cell research.
"As long as I am the governor of this great state, I will oppose any taxpayer dollars being used and spent on research that ends a human life," Perry said.
Hutchison, a Republican who is considering a run for governor next year, said last month that state leaders should develop a stem-cell research policy that keeps Texas from being "left in the dust by California." That state recently approved a $3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research.
Personally, I have a hard time seeing the moral equivalence between a stem cell that will never develop into a human being, and a human being with cancer or Alzheimer's disease whose life could potentially be saved by stem cell research.
The article goes on to address pharmacists to refuse filling prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraceptives:
NARAL Pro-Choice Texas is more concerned about another bill that Wheat said would allow a pharmacist to refuse to fill birth control or emergency contraceptive prescriptions.
I respectfully disagree with pro-life advocates on many issues in the abortion debate, but the idea of allowing individual pharmacists to decline to provide emergency prescriptions is just asinine. If you have a moral or religious objection to birth control, then you shouldn't be a pharmacist.
What's next? Laws allowing bartenders who object to drinking alcohol to decline serving alcoholic drinks? Laws allowing butchers who are vegetarians to object to cutting and serving meat? If you have a certain religious or moral objection to the demands of a certain profession, then find a new job.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at January 23, 2005 01:09 PM
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Amen! I guess, in the infinate wisdom of the Legislature, they should place a similar restriction on Viagra. After all, a pharmacist who believes sex should only be used for procreation may not want to fill an order of that stuff, either.
"As long as I am the governor of this great state, I will oppose any taxpayer dollars being used and spent on research that ends a human life," Perry said.
But it's obvious he doesn't oppose using taxpayer dollars being used and spent on executing inmates. Isn't THAT ending a human life? What a hypocrit.
