{"id":2022,"date":"2006-07-20T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/moral_clarity\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T05:35:19","slug":"moral_clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/moral_clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2006\/7\/19\/203820\/106\">Senator Tom Harkin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virtually everytime a couple goes to a fertility clinic, leftover embryos are created&#8230;if that&#8217;s murder, how can the President permit it to continue?  Where&#8217;s his outrage at the IVF clinics in this country?  Why isn&#8217;t he up here proposing legislation to shut down in-vitro fertilization in this country?  Make it a crime, a federal crime, to conduct in-vitro fertilization?  In the President&#8217;s narrow, moral universe, it seems to be just fine to destroy embryos, to throw them away, as the by-product of producing babies through IVF, but it&#8217;s murder to use the embryos to conduct life saving research.  Someone please explain the logic of that to me.<br \/>\nAnd why isn&#8217;t the President prosecuting the many thousands of American men and women who use these IVF clinics?  If their attempts to have children results in leftover embryos and these embryos eventually get discarded, aren&#8217;t they complicit in murder?  Under the President&#8217;s narrow, moral logic, and I&#8217;d hate to call it logic, the President&#8217;s narrow, moral view, any man or woman who allows their embryo to be discarded, something that happens everyday, is authorizing murder.  Why is the President standing idly by?  Why isn&#8217;t he putting all these men and women in jail?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good questions.  Perhaps someday someone in the White House press corps will manage to ask about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/moral_clarity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Moral Clarity\"><p>Senator Tom Harkin: Virtually everytime a couple goes to a fertility clinic, leftover embryos are created&#8230;if that&#8217;s murder, how can the President permit it to continue? Where&#8217;s his outrage at the IVF clinics in this country? Why isn&#8217;t he up here proposing legislation to shut down in-vitro fertilization in this country? Make it a crime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}