Comment of the Day: embryos are more important than Iraqis

By Martin Wisse on March 23rd, 2008

The ~~kiddie fiddling~~ Catholic Church in Scotland has had its bishopic tights in a knot this week over government proposals to allow the creation of socalled human-animal embryo hybrids, demanding Catholic Labour MPs vote against it. And indeed a great many of those now feel moral qualms they’ve never encountered before. Says Chicken Yoghurt:

Look at some of the Catholic MPs and cabinet ministers getting in a lather about the little itty-bitty potential-babies. Des Browne: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Ruth Kelly: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Paul Murphy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Geraldine Smith: voted very strongly for the Iraq war.

Paul Goggins: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Tommy McAvoy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Frank Roy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Tony Cunningham: voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
These people want to be allowed to vote with their consciences. Where were their consciences on March 18 2003 when the vote was taken to kill real, walking, talking, breathing, laughing human beings? How does an imaginary half-woman half-penguin get more rights than Iraqi children? Would the scientists get more support if their declared their intentions to cluster bomb these embryos?

‘Nuff said.

Bonus video clip: Mitch Benn