Salon.com Politics | Pope to Bush: Reject embryo research
1) "Pope John Paul II urged President Bush in their first meeting together to bar creation of human embryos for medical research, saying Monday that America has a moral responsibility to reject actions that 'devalue and violate human life.'"
2) "In contrast to the specific objection John Paul raised, embryos involved in the research that Bush is considering are not created for scientific study but are taken from fertility clinic surpluses that would otherwise be discarded."
Today's Ethics 101 Question: Compare the above statements (taken from an AP Wire article). Does statment 2 claim to refute statement 1? For extra credit, break the two arguments down into component assertions, stated and implied. Does this reveal anything about the arguments?
1) "Pope John Paul II urged President Bush in their first meeting together to bar creation of human embryos for medical research, saying Monday that America has a moral responsibility to reject actions that 'devalue and violate human life.'"
2) "In contrast to the specific objection John Paul raised, embryos involved in the research that Bush is considering are not created for scientific study but are taken from fertility clinic surpluses that would otherwise be discarded."
Today's Ethics 101 Question: Compare the above statements (taken from an AP Wire article). Does statment 2 claim to refute statement 1? For extra credit, break the two arguments down into component assertions, stated and implied. Does this reveal anything about the arguments?
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