Already, we have news that a friend of ours has delivered her baby this week. I can't wait to see the proud father with his new daughter. I'm sure I have friends who feel the same way about me, who wonder what I'll look like with a baby in my arms. It's easy for us to imagine that this new life in our home is more important than anything else in the world. That's because he is.
Human life is like that, infinitely valuable.
This is nothing new. So when President Bush spends the summer agonizing over whether he should do what little he can to prevent government funding of a process to create new human lives for the express purpose of killing them, to harvest their parts for research, or whether he's willing to do well by doing evil, it's no surprise that he's in a quandary. Bush has never been strictly pro-life, notwithstanding the scare tactics of Vice President Gore and the Democrats in last year's election. One has to pause and wonder at this conundrum. A very promising line of scientific research, which raises hopes of curing numerous difficult ailments.