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Mar 8th, 2009 by Robert C. Baker
Moving away from ”dogma” to “sound scientific practice,” as one adviser put it, President Obama is expected to sign a bill tomorrow reversing the government’s ban on using federal (read: your) money to fund embryonic stem-cell research.
No big deal if you believe that human life begins at implantation, live birth, or doesn’t matter at all. A big deal if you believe, as I do, that life begins at conception.
You can read about it at bloomberg.com, et. al.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
