An "Offensive Bioethics Agenda"
The WaPost reports that Leon Kass and friends are promoting what they call an "offensive bioethics agenda." Parsing the Post's skimpy details, it looks like they want to separate their anti-research agenda from the convictions of Sam Brownback and other religious pro-lifers. They seem to think they'll be stronger politically without their religious allies, a peculiar calculation. But I've long argued that there are two completely distinct worldviews here: one (the traditional zygotes-are-persons view) that supports the end (longer, healthier lives) but not the means (embryo research) and another (the Kass view) that opposes the end and, only incidentally, the means (embryo research). If there's one thing Leon Kass isn't, it's pro-life.