Posted on 08/18/2015 8:04:48 PM PDT by Morgana
Live Action News recently addressed a segment on “The Five” during which co-host Geraldo Rivera voiced his support for the harvesting of fetal parts.
Don’t you fear, Eric, that the scandal, the justifiable scandal over the callousness of the people portrayed in this video might put an end to the harvesting of what would be garbage, they would throw it away and there may be the cure for cancer in there. Maybe there is the cure for heart disease in that fetal resource.
Rivera does acknowledge there is “callousness” in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress featuring top Planned Parenthood employees discussing their fetal parts business. But he’s concerned for the wrong reasons. It’s not just the Planned Parenthood employees who exude “callousness,” though they do; it’s the whole process that is callous, as the body of a preborn baby who couldn’t consent to being aborted likewise can’t consent to having his body parts poked and prodded because there might be a “cure” to be found.
It’s also worth noting how Rivera refers to the fetal parts of aborted babies as a “fetal resource.” But a person’s resourcefulness doesn’t have to stop at the fetal stage, and doesn’t have to end in abortion. A “fetal resource” could very well end up curing cancer or heart disease, by growing up to being an adult who studies and researches and searches for such a cure through more ethical means.
Is it possible that we may have already had the chance to cure cancer or heart disease, or any number of terrible illnesses? If the person possessing those gifts and knowledge was aborted, we’ll never know. This is not to say that that’s the limit of a person’s worth and resourcefulness, but it’s still worth offering as a rebuttal to Rivera’s argument.
For all this discussion and support of embryonic stem cell use, one would think that it was consistently and definitely producing positive results. But as Live Action News has discussed previously, this is not the case.
And, more recently, The Federalist and LifeNews.com put forth pieces discussing the lack of evidence that fetal tissue has saved lives.
We all want to find cures. But if those cures end up coming from an aborted baby, it would be a victory filled with bitterness.
LOL. The author obviously makes the mistake of assuming Geraldo has logic to begin with.
Beat me to that.
There was a video of a woman that worked for Stem Express where she said women were talked into abortions (that hadn’t made up their mind) so that they could meet quotas. It’s not just the callousness of selling baby parts, it’s everything that goes along with it.
The ends don’t always justify the means.
Geraldo is a very mean liberal.
We hung Nazis for less.
The problem with Geraldo Rivera’s logic is Geraldo Rivera.
Wasn't Logic the brand of the chair Whorealdo was hit with?
I’ve never been a fan of his and then I actually watched The Apprentice when he appeared on it.
And whereupon I learned he is a stark, raving, egomaniacal lunatic—no exaggeration!
I don’t think Senor Jerry Rivers has ever been accused of displaying or succumbing to logic.
Wow - really - fetal resource? Well - I just moved my [fetal resource] son to the Univ of South Carolina - wonder how the rest of the fetal resources feel about the upcoming semester?
What LOGIC?
He's a LIBERAL and they seldom if ever use any logic other than "FLAWED LOGIC".. which incidentally is Geraldo's middle name.
Gerry Ruvers is a fraud.e should have faded away after he opened an empty vault.
The problem with Geraldo Rivera’s logic is that he says what he has to to keep his job.
The problem with Geraldo’s logic is that to be capable of logic, you have to have at least 4 functional brain cells.
Speaking of callousness...
Jerry and Eric don’t seem to care for each other. I would love to see Eric take him out live on “the Five”
Love to see geraldo grabbed on one of his trips to mexico and forced in to slave labor on one of mexico’s narcoterrorist farms.
Work harder and shut the hell un, stupid fake indian or whatever u b.
He made a joke about using the parts for dog food, didn’t he?
To hell with him. He should have been fired immediately afterward.
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