THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 79, March 12, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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OBAMA'S STEM CELL SACREMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo
MAKING LIBERAL LEFTIST IDEOLOGY NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY IN THE U.S.A.: LEFTWING LIBERAL PRESSURE
GROUPS FORCING THE TWISTED DOGMAS OF LIBERALISM ON THE PUBLIC SPHERE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, WHILE
RELENTLESSLY SEEKING TO DRIVE EVERY VESTIGE OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN MORALITY FROM THE AMERICA'S PUBLIC SECTOR --
A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE EFFORT TO CRAM LIBERAL IDEOLOGY DOWN THE THROATS OF AMERICANS BY MAKING IT U.S.
GOVERNMENT POLICY: THE DECISION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO RESCIND THE BAN ON FEDERAL
FUNDING OF STEM CELL RESEARCH
FULL STORY:
Imagine the Liberal hysteria that would immediately erupt upon any use of government funds to promote the
Judeo-Christian principles which have upheld our nation’s freedom and prosperity for over two centuries. America,
we are incessantly told by the Left, was founded on the principle of “separation of church and state” (as if life,
liberty, and all of the other noble ideals of the American Republic were mere afterthoughts). An attempt by the
nation’s leaders to advance a religious or Christian worldview would, in the minds of Liberals, constitute a mortal
threat to the future of the country.
Yet, those same Liberal interest groups that relentlessly seek to drive every vestige of traditional morality from the
public arena are among the most zealous advocates of replacing such precepts with their own twisted dogma. The
decision by the Obama administration to reverse the ban on federal funding of fetal stem cell research is a prime
example.
The issue is not one of “miracle medical cures.” Fetal stem cells have consistently proven completely useless in any
medical procedure, while stem cells taken from adults, who do not have to be exterminated in the process, are
showing positive results and great promise of future successes in many areas of medical treatment.
Nor does the fetal stem cell controversy have anything to do with the “freedom” to conduct honorable scientific
research. Private research has been taking place throughout the medical and scientific communities in this country,
and around the world, for many years. Admittedly, this situation is every bit as detestable to the fate of the unborn,
but it has allowed at least the insinuation of passivity on the part of the government. Of course, such a distinction,
symbolic though it may be, still does not sit well with the current abortion/death culture.
Perhaps most significantly, with the total lack of meaningful results from fetal stem cell experimentation, no commercial
use for them can be claimed. As a result, like so much of the worthless “art” that debases the current culture, the only
possibility of reaping monetary value from fetal stem cell work is with the involvement of government funding.
In another, more sane time, a “medical” process that was expensive and unnecessary, bore no worthwhile results (and,
in fact has tendency to cause serious harm to its recipients, including cancerous brain tumors), and involved the
needless destruction of innocent human lives would be summarily abandoned. Nevertheless, the vaunted study of fetal
stem cells and their completely illusory medicinal value is repeatedly held up as a shining hope for the future of
humanity. Obama commended this notion in glowing terms on March 9, 2009, as he signed the executive order allowing
federal funding for such research.
In reality, the ultimate intention of fetal stem cell proponents glares from one of Obama’s comments made as he signed
the order, or to be more accurate, the total absence of truth in that statement. He piously claimed that “humanity and
conscience” are embodied in the pursuit of fetal stem cell experimentation. Here, at last, Liberals believe they have a
way to reconcile humanitarian virtue with the unspeakable horror of human abortion.
Seeking moral legitimacy for a practice that, in every one of its forty-million plus iterations, has resulted in the death of
an innocent unborn child, the abortion advocacy has seized upon fetal stem cell “science” as a means of elevating
itself to the standing of decency and honor. If this ploy can ever be fully established in the minds of the American
people, abortion will be ever after validated as the salvation of humanity, instead of evidence of one of its lowest
descents into cruelty and barbarism.
Obama’s past commentary on this subject paints a far more accurate and sinister picture. Asserting that it would be
better to slaughter an unborn child in order to forestall the “punishment” of the mother to whom it might otherwise be
born, Obama has heartlessly supported the practice of allowing born-alive infants from “botched” abortions to die
from neglect. Even in Illinois, a state corrupted by Liberalism perhaps to a degree exceeding any other, Obama’s
pro-abortion mindset was regarded as extreme.
Nevertheless, with flowery rhetoric that bears little connection to reality, he once again acts in a manner that will
inflict destruction on helpless humanity, while claiming to uplift it.
Under such auspices, the religion of the Left is foisted on America with the full “blessing” (and all-important funding)
of the United States government. Legalized fetal stem cell testing, which unfortunately was the case even during the
Bush administration, ought to have constituted a sufficient moral outrage to satisfy the abortion zealots. But the
requirement that taxpayers foot the bill for this grim work is itself a means of forcing their genuflection at the grisly
altar of human abortion.
In perhaps the most strikingly bankrupt portion of his dubious signing statement, Obama gloried in his eradication
of the “false choice” for stem cell researchers “between science and moral values.” In truth, the entire fetal stem-cell
controversy is not about “science,” but about ideology and, ultimately, the dismantling of moral absolutes. Abortion
proponents long desired and now believe they have a pretense of merit behind which they can hide the hideous
realities of their business, the killing of unborn children for monetary gain.
However, under closer scrutiny, Obama’s flimsy pretext of unleashing the scientific community reveals an even more
abhorrent facet of his mindset, and recalls the societal degeneration that can result from such thinking. Among the
most notorious villains of the Nazi holocaust was a soulless individual by the name of Joseph Mengele. A medical
“doctor” in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Mengele committed heinous and brutal experiments on innocent
human beings, justifying his actions in the name of “science,” of course.
Mengele epitomized the monstrous depths to which humanity can descend, once “science” is divorced from ideology
and morality in the manner that Obama advocates. If a culture decays to that point, any crime against the weak can
and will be perpetrated by the strong, simply because they are psychologically and ethically unconstrained from
doing so.
It is of no consequence that, in this wretched episode, Obama made the obligatory effort to laud himself as “a person
of faith.” That ruse has worn thin. His “faith” bears no commonality with the precepts upon which this country was
built, but, instead, mirrors those dreadful things which are tearing it apart. Mengele himself could have made a similar
claim of “faith” under these murky auspices. By the fruits Barack Hussein Obama regularly bears, shall his “faith” be
known. And, even among those who remain gullible enough to accept such platitudes, he does not succeed in
elevating himself, but in dragging the concept of true faith to the levels where he has sunk.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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