{"id":2243,"date":"2005-09-19T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blunt-clears-things-up.html"},"modified":"2005-09-19T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T21:31:14","slug":"blunt-clears-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blunt-clears-things-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Blunt clears things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/letters\/letters200506301406.asp\">&#8230;.or not.<\/a> MO Governor Blunt has an outraged letter in NRO, explaining his position on cloning, etc., and taking pro-life leaders to task for keeping unborn children &quot;hostage&quot;. The NRO editors reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Blunt continues to mislead with the discussion of legislative \u201chostages.\u201d Pro-life organizations opposed the weakening of pro-life bills to accommodate the biotech industry. That\u2019s not evidence of unworthy \u201cpersonal or political\u201d motives. And even if the governor were playing it straight here, it would hardly make his position look better. If the pro-life groups were unreasonably adamant that anti-cloning provisions should be included, a governor who really supported the bill \u201cfervently\u201d could have let them have their way.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Blunt would have us believe that cloning isn\u2019t cloning if he calls it SCNT, and that cloning doesn\u2019t create a human life if he has prayed about it. But whatever we call the procedure in question, it creates a living organism of the human species. And in any case, the legislation the governor sank would have prohibited the \u201ccreation of a human being by any means other than by the fertilization of an oocyte of a human female by a sperm of a human male.\u201d If the governor thinks that SCNT doesn\u2019t create a human life \u2014 for some mysterious reason \u2014 he should have been able to support this bill.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have many reasons to cheer the record the governor has compiled so early in office. His support for cloning is, however, dismaying. So is the fact that he is defending his position with nearly Clintonesque spin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.or not. MO Governor Blunt has an outraged letter in NRO, explaining his position on cloning, etc., and taking pro-life leaders to task for keeping unborn children &quot;hostage&quot;. 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