Somehow, MSM always sounds the same on ESCR

Exhibit A: "Stem cell research spurs fierce opposition - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com"

The narrative structure is so predictable, so (yawn...) cookie-cutter, it's embarrassing. Same noble visionaries. Same cruel and stoopid clock-stoppers holding back progress. Same dire consequences should research not resume. Don't these journalists get tired of cut-and-paste jobs? Look at this:

The moral debate over embryonic stem cells stretches far beyond Capitol Hill to state capitals and research parks across the country, where a fierce competition is underway from Maryland to California for cutting-edge research and the profits that could follow.

In Maryland yesterday, advocates began a campaign to secure state money for stem cell research. A House of Delegates effort to spend $23 million a year on research died in the Senate earlier this year after a filibuster threat by Republicans and conservative Democrats.

Here in Missouri, a similar battle is raging over the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, which has built a $300 million laboratory and stocked it with sophisticated machines for nearly 200 scientists recruited from as far afield as China and Argentina.

Yet social conservatives in the Missouri legislature are effectively blocking some of the most ambitious research envisioned by the Stowers staff, saying that research with embryonic stem cells is so immoral it should be a crime.

"I believe that a human embryo is worthy of legal protection," said state Sen. Matt Bartle (R), who vows to press the fight. "Western medicine has been founded on a principle: First, do no harm."

Repeated legislative efforts by Bartle and his colleagues forced the Stowers Institute to curtail recruiting and stop planning for a second 600,000-square-foot facility. At the same time, those efforts have spurred creation of an impromptu statewide alliance of business leaders, liberal science advocates and antiabortion Republicans who favor the research for reasons of health care and job growth.

Advocates in Missouri and beyond expect the outcome to have broad implications for politics and science as states struggle to define the limits of medical inquiry. This is true whether the research money comes from private pockets, as in Kansas City, or the public treasury, as in California, where $3 billion approved by voters has been blocked by lawsuits and legislative maneuvers.

Of course, anything to move the Agenda of the Absolute Individual, the Great-I-Am forward! Truth? What is truth? As for embryos, well, a few broken eggs to make omlets, and that sort of thing. Besides, its not as if anyone's life is on the line. Come on, what are we Reasonable people? Fools?

ESCR pushes tax-payer dollars into industries that provide moral cover for Abortion. That's what the craze in the media is about, whether they'll admit it or not. Ultrasound has utterly decimated public support for abortion. Partial-Birth abortion, along with the antics on its behalf by Reasonable extremists such as PP and NARAL, have also turned off mainstream Americans. ESCR provides a convenient metaphysical way to justify the premises of abortion. After all, if they can be experimented on for health reasons, they can be aborted for other reasons. The state funding connection for this is crucial. If too many mainstream Americans continue to abandon the extreme pro-abortion position espoused by NARAL, etc, then public funding may come under attack. PPGG receives 53% of their budget from government subsidies. The Ka-ching! of government cash must keep echoing in the coffers! Otherwise, the Agenda grinds to a halt. Public funding for ESCR leads to renewed justification for public funding of abortion.

Therefore, expect to see the tired script continue to get press and air time. It's not about the health opportunities ESCR can provide. It's about covering Moloch's ass!