So says Patti Davis, writing about stem cells (really, embryonic stem cells):

The cost of this administration’s heartlessness will be measured in lives. Not only in the lives of people battling fatal illnesses or spinal cord injuries, but in the lives of family members and loved ones, who watch helplessly as bank accounts are drained to finance the desperate hopes of someone who simply doesn’t want to die yet. It’s doubtful that any of them will be comforted by religious homilies coming out of the White House.

Besides anti-Bush anger, Davis’s piece has lots of hard-to-argue-with emotion, with an unfortunate lack of focus on some of the more promising alternatives that have fewer ethical stings attached than embryonic stem cells have. Which pretty much is the stem-cell debate, summed up.