Moreno Delves Depper into Bush and Kass' "Decision Points"

Summer McGee

Fascinated by Bush's moral reasoning when it came to his stem cell decision of August 9th, 2001, Jonathan Moreno delves even deeper into the passages of the former president's autobiography to explore the faulty logic of his position regarding embryonic stem cell research.

In his Science Progress column, Moreno outlines Bush's concerns about moral complicity and how his "splitting the difference", in allowing research on only existing stem cell lines, to his mind anyway, avoided that moral problem of destroying embryos.

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