Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator — and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale. (Applause.) ~G.W. Bush SOTU 2006
I’m trying to figure out if in the SOTU Bush somehow confused the development of hybrid automobiles with stem cell research. Or if he was referring to Rick Santorum’s concerns about Man on Dog action. I’m staggered by the thought that he really might be concerned about the potential for some kind of Island of Dr. Moreau where mad scientists are creating half-woman/half-cat chimerae.UPDATE: Damn, I must have missed this announcement of a new cabinet-level position to coordinate GOP scandals