Steven P. BarrettEmbryonic Stem Cell Research: Legal Murder For Researchers
June 18th 2008 00:05
If you and I deliberately kill another human being, chances are, if we're caught, we'll be strapped on a cruciform gurney or find ouselves spending the rest of days in a permanent graybar retirement community.
But--if you're a researcher, with grants from pro-abortion and pro-embryonic stem-cell research philanthropic firms, you'll get off scot-free if the Michael J. Fox's and Ron Reagan Jr.'s, not to mention, Planned Parenthood Foundation have their way. With these two guys, it's always the ends justifying the means. And with PPF, well, the more abortions to get at these embryonic stem cells, the merrier. PPF is a publicly owned "foundation."
It's not that I can't or won't empathize with their Reagan's loss nor wish Fox better. Nor, however, is it that I'd like for science to stop researching cures to fight Parkinson's Disease to cure Fox's condition, or find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease in honor of the late President Reagan.
It's the kind of stem-cell research I find most reprehensible, the one using cells made from embryos mades specifically for only one purpose, harvesting these cells for science.
Human beings are not lab rats. They are unique and created in the image of God. Therefore, any attempt to harvest embryonic stem cells for the purpose of butchering them for scientific use only is a desecration, plain and simple. So, it should have surprised nobody when the the American Catholic Bishops stood up and reiterated their Church's firm "NO" for yet another time.
The Catholic Church has never been against stem-cell research, just the embryonic variety. Recently, the American Catholic Bishops made this point quite clearly. According to a report filed for Townhall.com by reporter Rachel Zoll:
Oh well, some people remain indominatably ignorant on this topic, and quite defiantly so. It's easy for them to do so since they're alive.
Do you hear this all you Catholics for Barak Obama?
But--if you're a researcher, with grants from pro-abortion and pro-embryonic stem-cell research philanthropic firms, you'll get off scot-free if the Michael J. Fox's and Ron Reagan Jr.'s, not to mention, Planned Parenthood Foundation have their way. With these two guys, it's always the ends justifying the means. And with PPF, well, the more abortions to get at these embryonic stem cells, the merrier. PPF is a publicly owned "foundation."
It's not that I can't or won't empathize with their Reagan's loss nor wish Fox better. Nor, however, is it that I'd like for science to stop researching cures to fight Parkinson's Disease to cure Fox's condition, or find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease in honor of the late President Reagan.
It's the kind of stem-cell research I find most reprehensible, the one using cells made from embryos mades specifically for only one purpose, harvesting these cells for science.
Human beings are not lab rats. They are unique and created in the image of God. Therefore, any attempt to harvest embryonic stem cells for the purpose of butchering them for scientific use only is a desecration, plain and simple. So, it should have surprised nobody when the the American Catholic Bishops stood up and reiterated their Church's firm "NO" for yet another time.
The Catholic Church has never been against stem-cell research, just the embryonic variety. Recently, the American Catholic Bishops made this point quite clearly. According to a report filed for Townhall.com by reporter Rachel Zoll:
Bishops adopted the document during the final public session of their midyear meeting.
They said the church had no objection to use of stem cells from adult tissues and umbilical cord blood. Nor do they oppose other research that "involves no harm to human beings at any stage of development." But they rejected the argument that embryonic stem cell research is harmless because the embryos would be destroyed anyway.
"Ultimately each of us will die, but that gives no one a right to kill us," the bishops said.
The bishops contended that cloning to produce human embryos for research "will inevitably facilitate attempts to produce live-born cloned children." Human beings will become "commodities" and procreation will be reduced "to a mere manufacturing process."
They said the church had no objection to use of stem cells from adult tissues and umbilical cord blood. Nor do they oppose other research that "involves no harm to human beings at any stage of development." But they rejected the argument that embryonic stem cell research is harmless because the embryos would be destroyed anyway.
"Ultimately each of us will die, but that gives no one a right to kill us," the bishops said.
The bishops contended that cloning to produce human embryos for research "will inevitably facilitate attempts to produce live-born cloned children." Human beings will become "commodities" and procreation will be reduced "to a mere manufacturing process."
Oh well, some people remain indominatably ignorant on this topic, and quite defiantly so. It's easy for them to do so since they're alive.
Do you hear this all you Catholics for Barak Obama?
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Comment by Damo
Unfortunately the science is being lost in the howling.
ES technology is ineffective and obsolete.
So why is there such a push to fund it?
One answer is that the embryologists who set up IVF are finding that IVF is no longer very specialized and they are scrambling for new careers.
There are other reason but this one often gets missed.
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embryonic stem cells may be the only cells with the potential to replicate the human heart, the research may revolutionise modern medicine and prevent the deaths of many living people