God Bless Them, Every One

This was exactly my logic when Bush surrounded himself with the "snowflake" children. Forgetting the fact that most of these embryos are destroyed and never implanted, if they are each considered a life, why aren't each and every egg and sperm?

"A couple of things... First of all, evidently, 'snowflake children' is the term someone cooked up to describe kids who have been born from embryos that have been adopted, placed in a womb, and allowed to come to term. Very nice. Wonderful, in fact.

The bill would not in any way interfere with this practice, though it's happened only eighty times and there are over four-hundred-thousand embryos in, uh, cold storage nation wide. The vast majority of these embryos will simply be disposed of if they are not used in research.

The bill has strong bi-partisan support and the figures I've read suggest that eighty percent of the public are on the side of not wasting this valuable resource, regardless of whether or not these tiny miraculous gobs of goo are really people yet.

Many on the far right use the 'slippery slope' argument. They seem to think that if the research moves forward, soon we'll be cloning people for replacement parts like lego pieces.

Plus, they really do believe that because these embryos could, under all the right circumstances, end up being people, that they have an obligation to protect these future Republicans - as usual, worrying far more about the idea of a possible FUTURE person than they do about the people who are already alive and kicking, especially if they happen to be something other than white Americans.

I was thinking, using that logic, isn't every egg a potential person?

Isn't every sperm a potential person?"

The American Taliban isn't fooling anybody. Their plan is to keep every woman pregnant at all times (hence an ultimate ban on contraception), to put the tampon and sanitary napkin industry out of business, to make sure no man ever wastes any sperm via masturbation or premature ejaculation (oooh, now that explains that new drug the FDA approved).