Posted on 09/04/2010 10:24:49 AM PDT by tcg
On Monday, August 23, 2010 Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined the implementation of the Obama Administration guidelines of 2009 which would have allowed researchers to extract stem cells from "surplus" embryos donated by patients at fertility clinics. Every "extraction" is an execution, killing human embryonic life...
...human embryology and developmental biology affirm that a human embryo is not distinct in kind from a human being, but a human being at an early stage of development. Even prior to implantation, a human embryo is a unique living human being with the genetic constitution and epigenetic primordial that continues to develop throughout his or her life. However, the right not to be killed in the womb, the right to be born and the right to participate in human relationships are rejected for these little persons. Human embryonic lives are reduced to what one astute Catholic philosopher and lawyer, Robert George, called a "pre-personal way of being human".
...At every age and stage of our "human-being- ness", be it as an embryonic person, in the womb, as an infant, as a child, an adolescent, an adult, in our times of illness, in our old age, we have always been dependent on others and vulnerable. This is what it means to be a human being. ..
...We must speak for human embryonic Life as we speak for all human life. We must expose and oppose this new form of genetic slavery wherein an entire class of human persons is being labeled as property to be used by those who are more powerful. Human Rights for Human Embryos: No to Deadly Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
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