[little jeremiah]

It's only eight cells in a petri dish. It's only a small "fetus" (ie unborn human baby). It's only a defective baby who won't live anyway. It's only a sick child who will have no quality of life. It's only a mentally ill person who has no enjoyment of life. It's only a retarded person who can't care for himself. It's only an elderly person who has no future ahead anyway. It's only a sick elderly person who can't care for herself.

It's only a Jew. It's only a Christian. It's only a native. It's only a (fill in the blank).

[marsh_of_mists]

Wow, that's perfect.

[usafsk]

Trite and ineffective line of reasoning. Do you think that a soul inhabits an embryo before implantation, before self-awareness, at conception? If so, what harm comes to the soul by the embryo simply not implanting, the cells dying a natural death? The soul moves on, the human doesn't suffer.

What is your position on what is a soul, how it comes into being, how it leaves the body, etc. And where are you getting this info? Rome?

[HighlyOpinionated]

It's only eight cells in a petri dish. It's only a small "fetus" (ie unborn human baby). It's only a defective baby who won't live anyway. It's only a sick child who will have no quality of life. It's only a mentally ill person who has no enjoyment of life. It's only a retarded person who can't care for himself. It's only an elderly person who has no future ahead anyway. It's only a sick elderly person who can't care for herself.

It's only a Jew. It's only a Christian. It's only a native. It's only a (fill in the blank).

Well said, thank you, little jeremiah.

I just wonder if God's testing us to see if we can use all this new scientific knowledge for good, for life, or for evil, for death. Guess we know for this couple and others like them.

Life is created when two incomplete DNA strands merge {And the two shall become one flesh}. Death cannot be created. Life can be killed, though.

Perhaps in the grand scheme does anyone suppose there are some couples who just aren't 'supposed' to procreate? Perhaps they're to adopt? But even then, they risk the "imperfect child."

God help us all.