An op-ed by two state senators in the Boston Globe yesterday is titled “Stem-cell research essential to Bay State.” No, they mean, they want embryos cloned and killed. That’s what this debate is about—in Boston and across the country (and then some). As I wrote Friday, Mitt Romney called his opponents’ bluff when he met them on frozen embryos. These exist already, we’ll use them, he said. But his opponents have no interest in working with him from there. Because that’s not what they really want. Seems pretty clear. Everyone supposedly wants “stem cell research,” but I’m (for instance) not opposed to stem-cell research, just a particular kind—on embryos. But you’d never know that listening to most of these folks, who often don’t give the time of day to anything but embyronic-stem-cell research. That’s not only misleading, overall, but a tragic shame.

And an uphill battle for those willing to take on the fight for clarity and the dignity of human life.