The Crossway blog has an interview with Scott Klusendorf, the president of Life Training Institute. He trains pro-life advocates to persuasively defend their views and has just written a book called The Case for Life, in which he aims to equip those committed to life to engage our culture regarding these challenging issues. This book is especially timely in light of President Obama’s executive order repealing the policy that limited federal tax dollars for stem cell research.Especially disheartening in Obama's announcement was his statement of the need to separate science from ideology, a statement that would lead to complete anarchy if followed to its logical conclusion. In in his interview, Klusendorf answers this question about Obama's statement:
6. President Obama said that ideology should not interfere with science. What do you make of that claim?
Well, the claim that ideology should not get in the way of science is itself an ideological claim, and a highly controversial one at that. I found this the most troubling part of his speech. If he is correct that scientific progress trumps morality, one can hardly condemn Hitler for grisly medical experiments on Jews. Nor can one criticize the Tuskegee experiments of the 1940s in which black men suffering from syphilis were promised treatment, only to have it denied so scientists could study the disease. Pro-life advocates are not anti-science. We are not anti-cures. We just insist that scientific progress must be tied to moral truth.
Read the rest of the interview here.
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