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It isn’t odd to do what President Obama is doing with the bioethics council that Bush established, its just….well….. Let me first tell you what I’m talking about.

Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House last week that their services were no longer needed and were asked to cancel a planned meeting, a council staff member said Wednesday.

The council was disbanded because it was designed by the Bush administration to be “a philosophically leaning advisory group” that favored discussion over developing a shared consensus, said Reid Cherlin, a White House press officer.

President Obama will appoint a new bioethics commission, one with a new mandate and that “offers practical policy options,” Mr. Cherlin said.

I’m wondering if anyone else caught the odd part of this all.  I began to doubt myself that I just may be wrong on something, because it just didn’t seem to make sense, so I looked it up.

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