Albert Mohler: Bioethics and the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Monday, September 22, 2008

Serious questions about serious issues are often among the first casualties of a presidential campaign. The major media are part of the problem -- as are the candidates themselves -- but the largest portion of the blame must be put on the American people. The fact is that the American public just does not show much interest in issues outside of a narrow comfort zone.

Writing in the current issue of TIME magazine, Nancy Gibbs suggests that we should be interested in how the major candidates would deal with some of the most pressing issues in bioethics -- issues that, after all, fall right within the pay grade of one who would serve as President of the United States. These issues are, as Gibbs explains, about "the hard choices our next President will have to help us make." the rest