There’s this fellow named Graeme Laurie who is said by BBC News to be an expert on medicine and the law at Edinburgh University, and who is also said by that British news agency to have spouted the following piece of blather.

“The stated reason for President Bush’s objection to embryonic stem cell research is that ‘murder is wrong.’ Why then does he not intervene to regulate or ban stem cell research carried out with private funds and which is happening across the U.S.? It’s a strange morality indeed that pins the moral status and life of the embryo on the question of who is paying for the research.”