The President of Good and Evil by Peter Singer, Granta, £8.99, ISBN 1862076936 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
WHETHER discussing embryo experiments or regime change, the current US administration is wont to describe its actions in ethical and moral terms. The first address that President George W. Bush felt it necessary to make to his nation restricted research to cell lines already derived from surplus conceptuses. This was by way of answer to his question, “Are these frozen embryos human life and, therefore, something precious to be protected?”
What do such declarations mean? How does Bush square his reverence for blastocysts…
