Re:Not an ignorant position (Score 2, Insightful)

But I don't really like the thought of creating and killing millions/billions of things that are/maybe/might be/could have been/sorta/etc humans to get there.

I think it's important to stress that Bush isn't interested so much in protecting human life. Even if his motives are genuine and straightforward, he's only interested in protecting human life at an arbitrary age cutoff.

Bush has sent a significant number of humans, some of them my family members, in harms way without, it turns out, verifying the validity of his research before acting. What gets me is the forked tongue speeches about the sanctity of human life on one hand, and the wholesale slaughter on the other.

This does however put me in mind of one of my favorite lawyer jokes.
Why are lab scientists increasingly turning to experimentation on lawyers instead of white mice?

• Population predictions indicate that there will probably never be a shortage of lawyers.
• Studies have shown that research scientists often develop emotional attachment to white mice.
• There are some things you just can't get a white mouse to do.