Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo had a widely discussed NYT op-ed last week on religious motivations for opposing embryonic stem cell research, and the need to ignore such pleas. This sentence is indicative of his argument:
No doubt the president’s belief that human life begins with fertilization is shared by millions of Americans, including many Christians and evangelists. But it remains a minority view and one that the president applies inconsistently.
His article got a rebuke on precisely this claim from an unlikely source – Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, who has advocated allowing parents to kill their infants up to 30 days after birth. Find out why here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.