Albert Mohler: The Floodgate is Now Open -- President Obama and the Vulnerable Embryo

Monday, March 09, 2009

President Barack Obama today signed an executive order that reverses the Bush administrations restrictions on federal funding for research that involves the destruction of human embryos. In a White House ceremony, President Obama said that Americans “have come to a consensus that we should pursue this research; that the potential it offers is great, and with proper guidelines and strict oversight the perils can be avoided.”

The President had promised to take this action as a candidate, but in the weeks just after his inauguration he had made comments suggesting that he would prefer that Congress would deal lift the Bush restrictions by legislation. Nevertheless, today's White House ceremony was thoroughly orchestrated and media had advance notice as of last Friday.

The President's new policy means that federal funding will now go to researchers whose work with human embryonic stem cells involves the destruction of additional human embryos. This represents a monumental moral shift. The United States government is now in the business of supporting the destruction of human embryos through federal funding of stem cell research. the rest