Posted on 10/25/2006 10:21:35 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Michael J. Fox is a famous TV and movie star. He is witty. He is charming. A few years ago, we learned he has Parkinson's disease.
PD is a slowly progressive neurological disorder, characterized by tremors, shuffling gait, a masklike facial expression, "pill rolling" of the fingers, drooling, intolerance to heat, oily skin, emotional instability and defective judgment (although intelligence is rarely impaired).
PD is currently incurable, although there are several methods to slow its advancement, including drug therapy and surgery.
PD is tragic, particularly in Fox's case, because it rarely afflicts persons under 60 years old.
Yet everyone faces tragedy at one time or another, in one form or another. A person's moral fiber is revealed in tragedy.
So we learned through Fox's affliction that he has either extremely poor judgment or a diabolical character flaw. He supports human embryonic stem-cell experimentation, thus contending that some humans are subhuman and expendable for others' personal gain.
We know there is nothing new under the sun. So Fox's character flaw is not new, just a variation of the worst of human behavior throughout history.
Slaveholders thought those whose lives and deaths they controlled were "property," as the U.S. Supreme Court determined in the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Hitler thought Jews were evolutionary mistakes. The Islamic government of Sudan currently has it in for black Christians.
Different day, different holocaust.
As is always the case, the powerful determine the fate of the powerless, and if the powerful don't hold the view that all humans are created equal, then the powerless end up enslaved or dead.
Some may think I'm going over the top to compare Fox to slave owners or Hitler or the Sudanese government. "Fox is a nice guy, and he's sick. Be nice."
If you think that, your sympathies are misplaced. Fox advocates killing certain people to experiment on them "for the greater good" simply because those people don't look like we do – yet. This is odd, because some day Fox won't look like most people either.
If Fox wanted to kill a football stadium full of toddlers to experiment on them, I doubt anyone would think he was normal, and I doubt anyone would bear with his barbaric rambling to be nice.
But using Fox's logic, experimentation of 2-year-olds should be acceptable. Toddlers are certainly far less developed on the human continuum and don't look at all normal by adult standards. The reason they are called "toddlers" in the first place is because their oversized heads and bellies cause them to "toddle" when they walk.
Scientifically speaking, a human is a human from the instant of fertilization, no matter what phase of development. "Take that single cell of the just conceived zygote, put it next to a chimpanzee cell, and 'a geneticist could easily identify the human. Its humanity is already that strikingly apparent,'" said Randy Alcorn in his newly released book, "Why Pro-Life?," quoting from "Preview of a Birth."
I'll worry about Fox's feelings after he stops using his considerable influence to convince the American public to support taxpayer-funded human embryonic stem-cell experimentation. Fox is not only pushing an ideology on me that advocates the destruction of human life, but he also wants to force me to pay for it. What gall.
I feel sorry for Fox's kids. Flashing them either forward or backward in one of Fox's "Back to the Future" movies, they are in lose-lose situations.
The future Fox wants to create for his three daughters looks bleak. No longer will only hens lay eggs for human consumption if Fox has his way. His daughters will be exploited for their eggs, too, because the only source of these pre-embryos is women. It is foolish to think technology will be sated by the availability of today's orphaned embryos, as is now the spin.
And in an altered past, Fox would have allowed the dissection of his days-old embryonic children so he could surgically ingest them in an effort to cure his own ailments – high tech cannibalism.
It's funny that Fox calls himself a vegetarian.
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I bet none of the celebrities actually stop by Fox's house and ask him how he's doing, offering him money or assistance. Nope, typical back-stabbing liberal elitists, they use people and spit them back out when they're not accessible anymore. Look at Bill Clinton. How many celebrities actually want to hang out with him anymore now that he's out of power?
The sad thing is, is that the political/celebrity Left doesn't give a damn about Fox's condition per se; it's all about advancing their toxic agenda.
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Of course not. The same with Christopher Reeve. He was used as an "emotional promotion piece" and thrown out. Just like Fox. Another sad dupe. But this is how the libs operate. You are only useful until you can no longer generate money or votes. Then you are history. Kinda like the long list of Clinton confidants.
Like Elaine Benes' dance in Seinfeld?
Thanks. He should have changed his name to cause me less confusion. Dag nab it.
Alan Colmes asked Michael Reagan an entrapment question, "Do you think your mother Nancy was exploited by the embronic stem cell people?"
Much to Alan's shock (including me and I suppose everyone else), the answer was, "Yes, and so was Christopher Reeve".
Leni
No, my statement, which I do not find ridiculous at all, is that both the blastocyst stage and four-and-a-half years old are stages of human development. That should be quite clear from a plain reading of the original statement.
Don't you agree that this statement is true?
I do not confer equivalence to a blastocyst and four-and-a-half year old. They are obviously different. Likewise a sigle spermatazoa is different, even from a blastocyst. This should be apparent even to the casual observer.
And. . .Democrats want to continue to kill (abort) a million babies a year.
Michael J. Fox goes off his meds to dance his little dance to make us ignore these facts.
Sorry, Mr. Bojangles, your party murders people while ours protects their lives--even yours. . . .
For, it remains for the nonmedical actor Democrat hacktivist Fox et al to demonstrate ANY return on embryonic stem cell research.
Democrats and their death camps in hideous disguise cannot do a thing about the stench.
Good comments Phil, especially since they haven't proved one thing that shows embryonic stem cells to be superior to adult stem cells.
Sorry I forgot the song has already been named. The Jerk!
Does the value of the research matter? By arguing about the value of research, we accept the utilitarian argument that this nascent human life can be destroyed if the value derived from the destruction is high enough.
I reject this argument wholesale. If I cannot determine the value of the human life objectively, how am I to measure it against the value of the research? If the value of the human life of a blastocyst is zero, then it would be fine destroy them for any purpose, and there should be Embryo Milkshakes available down at the Dairy Queen. However, if there is some positive value to be placed on this human life, any argument that weighs that value against anything else must assume that that value can be ascertained.
This is simply beyond our capabilities as human beings. I will not tinker with the machinery of weighing the value of some human life against other things. Down that road lies all the horrors of the 20th Century, and Hundreds of Millions dead.
These people need to GROW UP. We all have compassion for Michael J. Fox. It's a pity what's happened to him. But NOBODY is immune from criticism when they peddle mistruths in the public arena, especially with an election at stake. You can't just lie with impunity, whatever victim status you claim.
Like "fetal" sounds like a combination of "fecal" and "fatal."
("I didn't kill an unborn baby as long as your index finger, I merely removed 5 cm fetal material...")
See Politics and the English Language by George Orwell.
I should have made clear that my comment was directed to gridlock. I pinged you only because I was concerned that you had somehow taken at face value gridlock's ridiculous misrepresentation that I somehow favored a viability test based upon the ability to ride a bicycle.
Hey, LexBaird! Looks like atlaw has decided to leave with this comment, in spite of multiple attempts to engage his arguments. Ironic, isn't it?
Don't you agree that this statement is true?
Oh. Ok. So we're back to the unremarkable observation that human reproduction and development involves a lot of "stages." I am, of course, happy to agree with that, but I don't find it any more insightful than an observation that weather involves a lot of "patterns."
Thanks, Palladin. :-)
Ooops. You're a post late with your snorting.
I think you're right - this is a "drama queen" tactic used by the left and their "half truth" minions in the MSM... Now that the population has realized Republicans aren't starving old people to death, or making them eat dog food - the dems have come up with the new one - we're trying to keep diseases from being cured. If dems politicize medicine, it'll hurt the sick in the long run. In the short run, they'll get a few votes, they must not care about anyone but themselves...
Liberals never let that stop them.
Cordially,
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