{"id":2229,"date":"2009-06-20T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/06\/20\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-bioethics\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T14:59:53","slug":"we-dont-need-no-stinkin-bioethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/06\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-bioethics\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#039;t need no stinkin&#039; bioethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2009\/06\/18\/lament-for-a-bioethics-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Joe Carter at First Things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Earlier this week, members of the President&#8217;s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House that their services were no longer needed. President Obama&#8217;s decision was made and implemented in his typical style&#8211;gracious, pragmatic, and imprudent. According to the New York Times, the council was disbanded because it was designed by the Bush administration to be &#8220;a philosophically leaning advisory group&#8221; that favored discussion over developing a shared consensus. The new bioethics commission appointed by Obama will have a new mandate to offer &#8220;practical policy options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Obama administration already knows where it stands on all those pesky moral issues like human cloning, chimeras, and euthanasia, and just needs a group to provide advice on how to implement its preferred policies. Whereas the previous councils wrestled with such questions as &#8220;What is the nature of human dignity?&#8221; the new one will most likely be addressing more practical policy options, such as &#8220;How much should we pay women to harvest their eggs for cloning?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">So who is the President going to go to for advice. Cue the Church Lady.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/churchlady1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"209\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><strong>Satan!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Joe Carter at First Things. Earlier this week, members of the President&#8217;s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House that their services were no longer needed. President&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}