Posted on 08/02/2006 3:19:21 PM PDT by wagglebee
ANN ARBOR, August 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a July 26 column that reads almost like a parody of the slogans of the abortion movement, a sophomore at Michigan State University has declared that the unborn child is a parasite, similar to a tapeworm that should be "annihilated."
Writing for The State News, the campus paper of Michigan State University, one of the largest univerities in the U.S., Shane Krouse writes, "The fetus is merely a wad of cells. A mere wad of cells doesn't equate to a fully functioning, living human being. A wad of cells cannot make its own cognitive decisions… Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?"
Krouse asks rhetorically, "How can you kill something that is not yet living?" He answers his own question saying that the child after birth is "alive" because it no longer receives nutrients and oxygen through the umbilical cord from the mother. He does not clarify how a thing that processes nutrients and oxygen, grows, moves independently and replicates its own cells – the usual criteria for living things established by the biological sciences – can be not alive in the womb but suddenly alive at the moment of birth.
Nick Mrozowski, the editor for The State News, told LifeSiteNews.com that Krouse's piece does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the newspaper itself. "When we publish a columnist it is their view," he said. "We routinely publish columns that the paper does or does not agree with."
"[Krouse] has reinvigorated a debate in our community that is important. A debate is good."
Mrozowski said that the reponse to Krouse's inflammatory language has been a mere handful of letters, some opposed and some in favor.
One woman wrote to the State News to say that she agreed with Shane Krouse that the unborn child is a parasite that may be killed with impunity.
Clementine Ford of Adelaide, Australia wrote in response that because the "reasoning for abortion is personal…there can be no definable ‘valid’ reason for having one."
"Personally, I aborted my parasite because of failed contraception and a fervent desire not to breed right now. I feel no guilt for my actions."
See the original State News story at
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=36986
Anytime I hear a liberal say that they will not bring a child into this world I know that there is hope for the future.
He is evading or neglecting several important facts about fetuses. The fetus is not fixed in time but is continuously developing into a human being. Even though it is not rational yet, it has the potentiality to become rational with the passage of time. A parasite cannot do either of these things.
Mr. Krouse sounds like a fungi.
Who cares. I still don't want him to procreate and raise another generation of free lovers with no responsbility.
Isn't this in Michigan? I understand there is a huge population of Muslims in Michigan. Maybe that explains the disregard for human life.
Amen.
He's very cute. Not a parasite in the least.
Not a chance. And congratulations!
Naturally, they are victims of greedy corporations and cruel Republicans/sarcasm off
May this poor child never need nursing assistance to sustain her life.
"Personally, I aborted my parasite"
And does this young lady receive any funding from the government, that is, from the US taxpayer? She the real parasite.
That's a whole lot of "what-ifs" and worst-case scenarios you got there. Your solution is to "help" the youngster out by chopping it up, or pouring acid on it until dead?
How about instead pursuing the adoption route? Or work to help people caught in difficult circumstances caused by violent, heinous crime? Recategorizing some humans to non-human status to justify abuse and murder is a practice of the evil throughout history, not of the good.
To the author: Tie your freaking tubes you whack-job!
Same distancing tactic as the Nazis. Dehumanize, then kill. Easier on the conscience.
There is a special place in hell reserved for this she-beast.
"I feel no guilt for my actions."
I doubt this is true.
Ironically, pro-aborts really DO believe that living baby is "subhuman".
By Mr Krouse's standard, one doesn't need to wait until the parents grow old; their falling asleep would be enough to qualify them as a 'mere wad of cells, unable to make cognitive decisions.'
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