The looming show-down between El Presidente and members of his own party in the House of Representatives over embryonic stem-cell research leaves Virginia Foxx looking more and more like Tom DeLay's toadie.
Looks like the House has the votes, including at least 30 Republicans led by Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-Del.), to pass H.R. 801, the "Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005." Yesterday, El Presidente, who has NEVER vetoed a bill in his over four endless years in office, promised to veto this one (you are free to speculate on why, but the result is the same: ignorance triumphs). Talk, shall we? about "the Culture of Death"?
Where's Virginia Foxx on this issue? She's certainly NOT listed among the over 200 co-sponsors of the bill on the House website. She's opting for ignorance? A fine example to set. But she's also got Catholicism, the Terri Schiavo rhetoric. Well, she did not always think so, until it got politically necessary to climb out on that particular theocratic limb (thank you, Vernon Robinson). The intrepid former warrior for the Equal Rights Amendment has gone all Nearer My Pope, to Thee.
According to the WashPost, H.R. 801 would still prohibit federal funding for the creation of embryos solely for research purposes. But it would allow research using embryos stored at fertility clinics and donated by couples who no longer need them. These unused embryos are routinely trashed but are, in the screwed up politics of our day & time, sacred relics, or rather, political footballs suitable for being kicked down the field by the likes of Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. "Dr." Virginia Foxx has made her nest among such as these.
And is afraid of them to boot.
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