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James Hirsen

Newsmax.com
Posted February 21, 2005

Mitt Romney Exposes Stem Cell Duplicity
Trying to be like Canada?

It looks as if Mitt Romney's got the Massachusetts biotech firms and cloning lobbyists in a laboratory lather. Evidently, the Massachusetts governor recently advised the state Legislature that the cloning of human beings is not an activity that decent people should support.

Romney was responding to Democrat leaders in the Legislature who had introduced a bill to promote embryonic stem cell research. The gutsy gov characterized the bill to allow the use of stem cells, including those from embryos created specifically for medical research, as "a bit like the old bait and switch."

Romney's hit 'em where it hurts. What he's done is shone the ethical spotlight on an insidiously resourceful little word game that's going on, where the purveyors of pluripotent perplexity are attempting to dupe the public. Cloning proponents and their wild-eyed scientist buddies are aware that most Americans would be appalled to hear of the macabre plans to grow people in labs. But, in an effort to disguise their true intentions, they're practicing the low art of language deception.

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James Hirsen is a New York Times best selling author, commentator, news analyst and law professor. He is sought after for his expertise on current events and cultural matters, and has appeared on the O’Reilly Factor, Weekend Live with Tony Snow, Scarborough Country, CNN’s People in the News, Fox and Friends, ABC’s Politically Incorrect and numerous other television programs. He is also a frequent radio guest of Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, Dennis Prager, Michael Reagan and hosts his own daily nationally syndicated radio program. Hirsen is author of the popular weekly column, “The Left Coast Report,” and the New York Times bestseller Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics . He teaches law at both Trinity Law School and Biola University in Southern California and is admitted to practice in the California and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade. Prior to this James Hirsen worked as a professional musician and for a number of years was keyboardist for one of the most legendary groups of all times, the Temptations.