Wasn't I going to say anything about Mario Cuomo's outdoing himself with an egregiously dumb op-ed piece in the New York Times a while back in favor of the laboratory exploitation of embryonic stem cells?(While We're At It)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January, 2006

Wasn't I going to say anything about Mario Cuomo's outdoing himself with an egregiously dumb op-ed piece in the New York Times a while back in favor of the laboratory exploitation of embryonic stem cells? No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't. Mr. Cuomo's occasional reappearances as a deep-thinking Catholic moralist have long been on a list of things politely ignored.

But then there were these interesting letters in response to the Cuomo column, putting Peter Singer of Princeton and the pro-life office of the New York Catholic Conference solidly on the same side against Mr. Cuomo's claim that the crucial question is when human life begins. "Even the earliest embryo conceived of human parents is alive and a member of Homo sapiens," writes Singer. "Each of us has our...

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