Pelosi-Watch: enacts Obama's ESCR-decision, calls it "moral opportunity"

That's right, Pelosi, give the bishops the evidence they need to excommunicate you. In print is fine:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after President Obama signed an executive order lifting the Bush Administration's restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research:

"By lifting the executive ban on federal funding for stem cell research, President Obama has given hope, and potentially health, to millions. Every family in America is just one diagnosis, one phone call, or one accident away from needing the benefits of embryonic stem cell research.
"Today President Obama has also restored science to its rightful place in our national debates. Scientists must be allowed to pursue the research that they believe has the most promise to cure. And when they do, America remains a world leader in innovation, discovery, and growth.
"If we have a scientific opportunity to treat and cure disease, we have a moral opportunity to support it. That is why Congress will move to pass legislation to make this executive order the law of the land."

In other words, Pelosi takes it as a "moral opportunity" that she can help facilitate Obama's federal funding for ESCR, which will result in the widespread creation and destruction of innocent human life.

OneNationUnderGod posts ways of contacting Pelosi's Archbishop in San Francisco, George Niederauer.

Charles Krauthammer, meanwhile, completely explodes this "restoring science to its rightful place" canard. I would strongly urge you to read his piece if you have an interest in this and related issues, especially since Krauthammer actually has been an advocate of ESCR, so he can hardly be called biased. On the other hand, if you are looking for something lighter, enjoy some classic - and withering - P.J. O'Rourke.

Meanwhile, Ryan Anderson quotes Fr. Neuaus: "Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethics, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on the way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptionable."