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Yet more proof that when it comes to stem cell research, the American Left – and thus, President Barack Obama – is uninterested in science.

As I have asserted over the past week, President Obama’s reversal of the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is motivated primarily by ideology – the almost involuntary need to undo anything and everything Bush.

It’s a fixation of Obamacrats and other leftist-like entities.

To be fair, I am willing to concede a fair amount of ignorance still exists on the matter with the general public. For instance, as has been noted extensively by conservative pundit and commentator alike, many in this nation continue to believe that President Bush actually banned the research of embryonic stem cells, not just taxpayer funding for them (and then only for new embryonic stem cell lines created after 2001). The perception is that the archaic, God-happy Texan who preceded The Chose One was so Jesus-obsessed, that he was more than willing to sacrifice innocent lives to preserve petry-dish cell clumps.

Those clumps can’t vote yet, so why would they be worth anything?

I have contended that if science were the true motivation behind this purely anti-W/pro-abortion maneuver, Obama and crew would have no need to shove taxpayer dollars into what is a tremendously unethical area of research, especially knowing that the very same research can be done – ethically – without destroying a single human embryo.

In 2007, scientists discovered that they could, in effect, create embryonic stem cells (actually, the biological equivalent to them) by manipulating what we know as “adult” stem cells – injecting them with specific genes to transform them into a more primitive state. This was a huge breakthrough that, theoretically, solved the problem on all fronts. Stem cell research could continue and the profound ethical issues surrounding the destruction of human embryos would be avoided altogether.

With the advent of this exciting technology, President Bush signed Executive Order 13435 in June, 2007. It allowed for federal taxpayer dollars to be used in the continued research of these new embryonic stem cell copies – known as pluripotent cells. In other words, once the ethical dilemma of destroying human embryos was no longer an issue, President Bush said federal funds were on the way.

Onward science!

That is, until last Monday.

Not only did President Obama re-fund embryonic stem cell research with taxpayer dollars, he overturned Executive Order 13435.

Overturned it!

The actual text from the Executive Order Obama signed last week reads:

“(b) Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007, which supplements the August 9, 2001, statement on human embryonic stem cell research, is revoked.”

Those who accused President Bush of being ideologically tainted had best step back and consider the unqualified foolishness of what Obama has done.

For what reason would the President Obama find it necessary to revoke President Bush’s funding of pluripotent cell research if not for purely political reasons? Even as a fervent advocate of embryonic stem cell research – which he is – is it nothing but childish vindictivness that motivates him to needlessly rescind Bush’s Executive Order? If, indeed, this is only about science, than hasn’t President Obama served to obstruct it, at least as much as he claimed Bush was?

Think about this for a moment.

President Bush signed an Executive Order providing federal funds for the research of cells that can be created by scientists to be the same as embryonic stem cells, thus rendering the crux of the debate moot. President Obama, on the other hand, upon taking office, thumbed his nose at this and not only poured his ideological excrement onto a highly volatile issue by making taxpayers who value human life pay for its destruction, but did so when it didn’t have to be done – not if science were truly the consideration. On top of that, he cut off funds for the science that made the destruction of human embryos inessential.

Disgusting, Mr. President.

I thought about throwing in a “Shame On You, Bam,” but it’s starting to lose its meaning at this point.

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