Posted on 08/25/2006 6:42:35 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Lawyers love to talk about the slippery slope, how you bend the rules a little or do something a little wrong and it leads inevitably to worse. But sometimes the slope turns into a precipice and you find yourself looking into the abyss. Use of fetal tissue for cosmetic purposes - especially fetal tissue conceived only for that purpose - is such precipitous plunge.
The scientific and medical community knew it would happen eventually but didn't know how soon. False hope for stem cells is cruel enough - but using stem cells from fetuses created for monetary gain to use for cosmetic purposes seems to us to cross the moral line.
In a News of the Day announcement on August 17, 2001, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons discussed a new abuse of stem cells.
Exclusive clinics in various worldwide locations are offering face lifts and cosmetic procedures using tissues from aborted fetuses and stem cells from human embryos. The cells are said to rejuvenate the skin.
The optimum age of the fetus is 8 to 12 weeks. Reportedly, women in poor nations are paid up to $200 to carry a baby until the appropriate time for "harvesting" the cells.
U.K. stem-cell researcher Colin Blakemore told the London Daily Mail that the therapies are "highly experimental" and could damage the reputation of legitimate researchers.
It seems distasteful, but thousands of women have already done it and it is organized by a seemingly respectable British clinic and carried out in Rotterdam, Holland, where rules regarding stem-cell therapies are less strict.
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Either of you know who has the Abortion ping list?
Not sure. Flora might know.
More infant sacrifice at the altar of human vanity.
Nope. Don't know.
Bump this enough, though, and they'll eventually see this and ping it.
Let's try Coleus
Thanks for the bumps.
>>>The optimum age of the fetus is 8 to 12 weeks. Reportedly, women in poor nations are paid up to $200 to carry a baby>>>
Well, they were just going to throw the "tissue" away anyway. /sarc
The truth is there is no answer, no one knows [when the "fetus" receives its soul]
No one knows when the soul comes into the body.
According to Jeremiah 1:5, babies have souls before they are born. They existed before they were born. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..."
God also knows them and has plans for them.
11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
That is not true, but if it was, are you saying its OK to harvest fetuses for human use?
So glad you cleared that up! I do still need your help with something:
If I decide, or if I can get enough legislators to decide, that a soul has not entered your body is it acceptable to grind you up and use you for cosmetics? Or perhaps we can harvest your organs for use in folks that are more worthy. It may be that you have some attractive tattoos. If the government decides you are less than human we could make a nice lampshade. After all, some WWII concentration camp memorabilia can be so hard to come by.
In the interrest of saving you time I have gone to the trouble of preposting your reply:
No one knows when the soul comes into the body.
You are welcome. Have a nice day.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..."
could more readily be an testimony of God's existence outside of time rather than prior existence of the soul.
The existence of a plan is also no indication of a souls preexistence or an indication of when it is present in a persons' body.
For the record, I believe it is a person at conception and that deliberate abortion is murder.
It is a person at conception....but each soul is a part of God's plan....past, present, future.
The Dominican Republic is apparently one of these nations where poor women are paid to conceive babies. If these treatments worked, rich white women would have dark stains on their faces from the cells of these murdered babies. If only.
Mrs VS
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance
My apologies. I had no idea that you agree with me until I saw your tagline.
According to your statement no one knows when the soul enters the body. According to your tagline drawing conclusions / taking action (condemnation) without first obtaining the key facts is the height of ignorance. I follows then, that aborting a fetus when one does not know if it has a soul (and, per your statement, one cannot) is the height of ignorance. I would have chosen a different word than ignorance.
Kudos! Glad to have you aboard.
Is this the point at which we're all supposed to act surprised?
I agree completely!
Just a waystation on the road to Soylent Green.
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