180 Degrees

William Saletan has a nice table up at Slate, pointing out the degree of disengenousness when it comes to George W. Bush's contradictory positions on stem cell research and the death penalty.

On that note: some time back, Oyster pointed out the hypocrisy of those who claim that "life begins at conception." I can't recall the exact statistics, but I believe upwards of 50 percent of fertilized eggs fail to attach themselves to the uterine wall, i.e., a woman's body de facto aborts them. Yet, no one on the anti-choice side is hollering, wailing, gnashing their teeth, tearing their hair out, or otherwise lamenting.

Thanks to this fake "respect for life," upwards of 400,000 embryos remain frozen in test tubes around the country--boy, that's showing some respect.

And, changing the subject a bit, Bush hasn't exactly demonstrated a "respect for life" in his foreign policy either.