President Bush strongly supports embryo adoption. The only way an adopted embryo can be brought to term is through implantation in a healthy woman. So, Bush should encourage his daughters to be surrogate mothers, or does he have others in mind? Maybe volunteer surrogates should get a free college education?
My point is that if he is serious that all those embryos are persons, then he has to propose a program to take care of all of them. Or maybe when he had his photo taken with all those parents and their embryo-implanted babies, he should have reminded them that they should not produce embryos unless they are willing to bring all of them to birth.
Embryos are not persons. As a test, give any of those parents at Bush's photo opportunity a "Sophie's Choice" between the life of a four-celled embryo and the life of an already-born child.
While they might not want to make any choice, they would choose the child. The child, unlike the embryo, is a person with full civil and economic rights.
-Jon Torgerson,
Urbandale.
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