:: Stem sell sold ::

Thursday, November 04, 2004

As a follow-up to my rant on issues about which I'm surprised to find myself in the minority opinion, California overwhelmingly passed Proposition 71, guaranteeing the distribution of $3 billion over the next ten years expressly for stem-cell research. I voted for this, and it's comforting not to be in the minority at least in my home state. When wealthy red-staters want a replacement liver, they'll not only be the spark plugs that drive a burgeoning, lucrative, and medically beneficial economic engine, but also provide a handy influx of tourist dollars while visiting for treatment from their homelands, where it will be illegal to do anything with unused embryos except flush them down the toilet, while compulsorily clasping one's hands and praying for His mercy that it wind up a happy little piece of biohazardous goo in heaven.

Interestingly, filling out my absentee ballot was the first time I found out that human cloning is prohibited under state law. I promptly incinerated my master blueprint for an assembly-line complex to mass-produce clones of Steve Perry from Journey, the prettiest man alive.

Posted by morland @ 04:43 PM

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