Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Time For Moderate Acceptance Has Passed
Self/FreeRepublic ^ | 1/25/2003 | MHGinTN

Posted on 01/25/2003 5:12:08 PM PST by MHGinTN

Aren’t most Americans moderate in their views, falling somewhere in the middle on the issue of abortion?

It is true that the acceptance quotient for the vast majority of Americans falls somewhere between the notions of ‘legal protection for all conceived individual human life’ and ‘legal protection for partial birth abortion’. I was once somewhere between the two ‘extremes’, but the truth offered from persons who had dug deeper into the science and issues regarding nascent human life awakened me from my comfortable slumber. The realization that awakened my sleeping brain was that ‘with tacit acceptance of in vitro fertilization and then the apparent necessity for some abortion, our society too quickly arrived at acceptance of --no, DEFENSE OF, by powerful political forces-- infanticide.’ Apparently, the retired Democrat Senator from New York has had a similar epiphany, since he has characterized partial birth abortion as infanticide.

After thirty years of 'somewhere in the middle', abortion has lead directly to the maximum cheapening of individual human life, now defending infanticide for convenience and profit. But is that really the maximum corruption of our founding principles regarding the unalienable right to life? Perhaps we can and will degenerate further. Let’s explore such a probability.

The straight-line course ahead, from our current inhumane reality, will embrace actors in Hollywood insinuating that ‘exploitation of embryonic life is needed to bolster unencumbered lives of worthy pursuit’ … a notion made palpable by deranged feminists and their political champions who have insisted that in order to be 'fully empowered' a woman must have a legal right to commit violence upon her conceived children. Through tacit acceptance for the extreme treatment of individual natal life --forceful withdrawal of life support; abortion-- it is assumed by the societal engineers that we will accept ‘conception of individual human lives and then killing those individuals for their body parts.’ That’s cannibalism.

Stricken Hollywood actors and power-crazed politicians, in order to convince you that exploitation of individual embryonic life is right, must arrange your tacit agreement that ‘killing and harvesting embryos is not the same as killing an individual.’ But the scientists they would employ and fund with your taxes to carry out this medical marvel already know the truth. Here's the key to clarifying their duplicitous reasoning: those seeking your tacit acceptance of embryonic exploitation must have you first agree to a blatant lie ... or worse, have you agree that these are individual human lives being exploited in their earliest stage of a less worthy lifetime, defining a higher purpose for these embryonic individuals, sustaining others who were not stripped of life support to harvest their body parts. The first level of agreement --that embryos are not individual humans-- is based on a calculated lie; the second descending level of agreement is acceptance of cannibalism based on the specious axiom that embryos are not human individuals existing in the normal stage of a human lifetime.

Regarding the specious arguments of nihilist, I've given up addressing directly the bloviations of leftist dead-souls. Instead, allow me to elucidate the slippery slope many faithful people warned of way back when the outrage over in vitro fertilization was squelched ... a downward slope upon which we are now accelerating.

Having lost our hold on the goodness of supporting life (the humane necessity of life support), exploitation of nascent life is already a reality. The fetal tissue harvesting industry, with more than a billion dollars in business receipts each year, already influences ‘when a woman ought to have the abortion she seeks’ since the later differentiation of tissues makes ‘later rather than earlier’ killing and harvesting of the fetus more desirable to those who will profit from the killing. But that's just the beginning of the horror: 1) embryonic stem cell exploitation now demands the conception and killing of untold numbers of embryos; 2) therapeutic cloning is based on the in vitro fertilization/conception of human life, with killing and harvesting as the goal when the embryo has differentiated sufficiently to make specific target-cell identification reliable. Both of these 'scientific advances' require our nation to accept the specious notion that an individual human life doesn't begin with at least first cell division (onset of mitosis). The second methodology requires that you accept the wholesale exploitation of human life by conceiving it then killing it, harvesting the body parts.

Having read this far, some will insist, “But an embryo in a petri dish is not the same as an implanted embryo, not the same as a fetus, not the same as a born child, not the same as … “, yet the very science now hurrying to exploit embryonic life is convinced an embryo IS an individual human lifetime begun. “Outrageous assertion”, some will say. Let the goals of these scientific pursuits prove the case.

First, let us examine the goal of in vitro fertilization. With this procedure, a female gamete is fertilized by a male gamete (gametes are the ‘sex cells’ of the adult male or female). Once cell division is evidenced and the embryo reaches a desired number of body parts (the embryonic stem cells), the individual embryo is placed into the uterus of the target woman (and in most cases, several individual embryos are implanted at the same time, ‘running the odds’ so to speak; if ‘too many’ achieve life support, the attending medical personnel will advise on aborting one or more, to improve the odds for the escaping survivor).

The technician watching the product of fertilization (the conceptus) in the ‘petri dish’ is looking for cell division, to assure that an individual life has begun to express, to grow … the technician implants only the embryo proven to be building her/his individual body!

Additionally, the technician must achieve this transfer from ‘petri dish’ to human uterus at a specific stage in cell division, a specific stage in the lifetime already begun in a dish; if they try implanting too early, the embryo will not have the sticky coating it creates which allows for attachment to the uterine wall. Timing is crucial, timing that is based on proven growth processes of an individual human life. [If you’re wondering, this continuum concept of individual human existence is the exact same reasoning regarding the onset of puberty --for example, as a normal stage in individual human development. The scientist views individual human life as a continuum, having a beginning at conception and first cell division, and continuing through a myriad of differentiations and organ expressions.]

Let us turn now to cloning, for the methodology of a technician seeking to clone life has much in common with the in vitro fertilization process.

The clone is a genetic duplicate of a parent DNA donor. The in vitro fertilization technician conceives by bringing male and female gametes together, thus achieving the contribution of 23 chromosomes from female and 23 chromosomes from male, resulting in a conceptus having the normal 46 chromosomes. The clone technician seeks to use a mature female gamete from which the chromosomal nuclear ball has been removed and the 46 chromosome nuclear material of the ‘adult donor’ is inserted. [‘Adult donor’ refers to an organism with the normal compliment of 46 chromosomes, not to the age of the donor. In some procedures, the product of male/female conception is stripped of the 46 resulting chromosomes prior to first cell division, and the 46 chromosomes of the donor are inserted.]

If the cloning technician seeks to fully reproduce the genetic donor, the conceptus is observed for evidence of cell division, then, just as with in vitro fertilization/reproduction, the embryo is inserted into a woman’s uterus for continued life support … life support for a proven individual human that is a genetic duplicate of the donor, with none of the ovum donor’s chromosomes. [There is ‘from-the-female’ DNA material in the de-nucleated ovum, associated with the mitochondria units of the ovum, but developmental characteristics of the newly conceived individual will follow the parent chromosomal route through growth and development. This is the complicated ‘stuff’ too rigorous for discussion in a short essay.]

If, instead of reproduction for a fully expressed parent donor, the technician desires ‘therapeutic cloning’, the embryo is not implanted in a woman’s life supporting body; life support in the ‘petri dish’ is provided until a desired stage of cell differentiation is achieved and then the embryo is harvested for the desired tissue, killing the individual human life conceived for a tissue specific cloning purpose.

With first cell division, the newly conceived human life is constructing its own ‘space capsule’ (the placental bubble and the fluid that inflates it) and its own individual body and blood. The woman in whom an embryo resides does not construct the placenta or the body of the newly conceived individual human life. In fact, it is the newly conceived individual who commandeers life support from the woman’s body. It is the embryonic individual who initiates its own growth and development AND the life support from the woman’s body.

Cell division proves to the scientist that an individual human life is present.

The production of a sticky coating by the embryonic individual proves the desire for survival. Is that desire the same as the adult desire for shelter and sustenance? No, it is more akin to the hunger response, but it is unimpeachable evidence that an individual life exists. Is that life human? … If the parents are human, that’s always the case. If the embryonic individual did not construct the placental sac for its residence, the presence of a genetically foreign individual life in the woman’s body would cause her body to attack the ‘other’. This is yet another substantial proof of the individuality of the newly conceived human life and its miraculous effort to survive for a lifetime.

If our nation does not accomplish a paradigm shift, to hold individual human life as something not to be exploited for 'medical' purposes, the cannibalism of embryonic stem cell harvesting and therapeutic cloning will be our reality.

One further note: the ‘enlightened’ expect you to accept the notion that an embryo IS NOT an individual human life. That the scientist seeks to conceive 'designer' human life --with therapeutic cloning-- only strengthens the truth that they are conceiving an individual human life for exploitation and death. Giving tacit acceptance to a proven lie is bad enough, but to embrace cannibalism founded on such a lie is far beyond moral and ethical dilemmas. If we do not, at this critical juncture in our national life, accomplish a paradigm shift in the nation's perception regarding individual human life, two very unpleasant leviathans will devour the remains of our national goodness. Only God’s mercy will continue our life support as a nation should we slip further down the slippery slope without ascending back to the goodness of life support for all individual human life, repudiating the cannibalistic exploitation now looming in our future.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholiclist; cloning; stemcells
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061 next last
To: MHGinTN
Prolife from the moment of conception BUMP!
21 posted on 01/25/2003 8:43:16 PM PST by EternalVigilance (abort NARAL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Aarchaeus
I have no argument to advance against what you have written. For the simple reason that I agree with you.

I know that the motivation of the "culture war" comes from an evil source. I also know that this source is the implacable enemy of Life, especially human life. This source is "the father of lies" and the great, eternal slanderer and calumniator of mankind.

But as to God's plan at this juncture, of that I know nothing. But I figure He knows what He's doing. So I only pray for His mercy, His pardon, His Grace, on all of us human beings, who are His children.

22 posted on 01/25/2003 8:59:34 PM PST by betty boop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: betty boop
But as to God's plan at this juncture, of that I know nothing. But I figure He knows what He's doing. So I only pray for His mercy, His pardon, His Grace, on all of us human beings, who are His children.

So true. What is going on here in America make it so abundantly clear to me that He is our only hope. It has gotten to the point that when I see a bumper sticker or any kind of sign that says "God bless America" it really disturbs me. It should be "God have mercy on America".

23 posted on 01/25/2003 9:18:45 PM PST by Aarchaeus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: philman_36
Actually, you made a very poignant statement. It immediately evoked from me sadness at the thought of all those millions of American children who never got the chance to enjoy the wonder of fairie tales and lilting poems, never held a dolly or pushed a toy around. How very bankrupt our nation will be when the rush to exploit individual human life in the embryonic stage of a begun lifetime is more impotant than supporting that life until we hear the laughter of those children, not to mention the unimaginable gifts they could've given to our science, arts, etc.
24 posted on 01/25/2003 9:44:52 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Aarchaeus
More to the point, Aarchaeus, he hates God's love for us and His grace toward us. BTW, I think bb is very familiar with the scriptures.
25 posted on 01/25/2003 9:47:08 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Aarchaeus
It has gotten to the point that when I see a bumper sticker or any kind of sign that says "God bless America" it really disturbs me. It should be "God have mercy on America".

Well, I do know that feeling, from my more cynical reflections on the current state of things. But in the end, that's a really depressing thought, seen from a narrow perspective IMHO. What God sees may well be very different. Consider this: America is probably the most Christian nation on the face of the earth right now. And America is trying to stand up for civilized order, against all odds as it seems.

So I'll take this opportunity to disagree with you, in the spirit of Christian hope and love: May God bless America.

26 posted on 01/25/2003 9:48:09 PM PST by betty boop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
Erata ... impotant = important ... sorry for the sluggish fingers.
27 posted on 01/25/2003 9:49:28 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

Perhaps I should have used corrigendum since I can spell that one ... the proverbial Oops!
28 posted on 01/25/2003 9:59:15 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
killing and harvesting of the fetus human being, child, life, soul...

...is murder!

29 posted on 01/25/2003 10:07:04 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: betty boop
I know that the motivation of the "culture war" comes from an evil source.

Conservatives are in a “culture war”, God help us.

30 posted on 01/25/2003 10:12:35 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeLawyer
Ping
31 posted on 01/25/2003 10:21:34 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eaglebeak
PING. Try this on for size ...
32 posted on 01/25/2003 10:23:34 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skr; sitetest
Ping-a-ling
33 posted on 01/25/2003 10:39:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Texas Eagle
Ping ... not trolling for comments, just offer tidbits
34 posted on 01/25/2003 10:48:41 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Polycarp
Ping, Brian, while you're resting between posts.
35 posted on 01/25/2003 11:54:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN; *Catholic_list; .45MAN; AKA Elena; al_c; american colleen; Angelus Errare; Antoninus; ...
Well done!

bump ping

while you're resting between posts.

;-)

(Migraine headache, can't sleep, might as well FReep.)

36 posted on 01/25/2003 11:59:06 PM PST by Polycarp (Taglines should not automatically reload on non related threads...can someone fix this?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
BTTT!!!!!!
37 posted on 01/26/2003 3:04:16 AM PST by E.G.C.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: dansangel
PING
38 posted on 01/26/2003 8:15:42 AM PST by .45MAN (May God bless them all!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
IF an unborn baby is NOT human, just a bunch of 'generic, could be ANYTHING' cells, then WHY is there such an interest in the harvest/torture of them by those who are walking/talking/'living'/crippled 'humans'?

WHY is there not a push to harvest PIG cells, JACKASS cells or even MONKEY cells? Why wouldn't the cells from THOSE unborns be acceptable?

I'm convinced that those who are 'moderates' and 'pro-choice' have those 'generic, could be ANYTHING cells' passing as brain matter.

39 posted on 01/26/2003 9:47:28 AM PST by mommadooo3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Polycarp; All
When I posted this scrabbled essay yesterday, I meant only for the issues to be aired for discussion. So many freepers and lurkers have sent e-mail and freepmail suggesting that I polish the thing and seek periodical publication, I've decide to sort of do that! I've polished the essay in syntax and syllogistic flow. Now, if any of you wish to copy and send to a local club paper or bulletin, or wish to copy and use it through a Church program or publication, or even send it to your elected representatives (very important to do this if you can) please feel free do so, and use you name if you like ... the important thing is, if you agree that decades of abortion on demand have jaded our society to the extent that we now will embrace cannibalism in a most subtle form, help air these truths with our fellow Americans and pray to awaken our nation to, at least, our previous goodness.

Below is the fourth edition of the essay, polished as much as I care to do it. We did this with the 'letters to the editor' project for the 2000 election, let's give this a try, to stop embryonic stem cell and cloning efforts that conceive individual human life for body parts.
********

Time For Moderate Acceptance Has Passed

Aren’t most Americans moderate in their views, falling somewhere in the middle on the issue of abortion?

Yes, the acceptance quotient for the vast majority of Americans falls somewhere between the notions of ‘legal protection for all conceived individual human life’ and ‘legal protection for partial birth abortion’. I was once somewhere between the two ‘extremes’, but the truth offered from persons who had dug deeper into the science and issues regarding nascent human life awakened me from my comfortable slumber. The realization that awakened my brain was that ‘with tacit acceptance of in vitro fertilization and then the apparent necessity for some abortion, our society too quickly arrived at acceptance of, no, DEFENSE OF, infanticide.’ Apparently, the retired Democrat Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has had a similar epiphany, since he has characterized partial birth abortion as infanticide.

After thirty years of 'somewhere in the middle', legalized abortion has lead directly to the maximum cheapening of individual human life. We have Americans defending infanticide for convenience and profit. But is that really the maximum corruption of our founding principles regarding the unalienable right to life? Perhaps we can and will degenerate further. Let’s explore such a probability.

A straight-line course from our current inhumane reality will have us embracing actors in Hollywood who insinuate that ‘exploitation of embryonic life is needed to bolster unencumbered lives of worthy pursuit’ … a notion made palpable by deranged feminists and their political champions who have insisted that in order to be 'fully empowered' a woman must have a legal right to commit violence upon her conceived children. Because of our tacit acceptance for the extreme treatment of individual prenatal life --forceful withdrawal of life support, abortion-- it is assumed by the societal engineers that we will accept conception of individual human lives and then killing those individuals for their body parts. That’s cannibalism.

Stricken Hollywood actors and power-crazed politicians, in order to convince you that exploitation of individual embryonic life is right, must arrange your tacit agreement that killing and harvesting embryos is not the same as killing an individual. But the scientists they would employ and fund with your taxes, to carry out this medical marvel, already know the truth. Here's the key to their reasoning: those seeking your tacit acceptance of embryonic exploitation must have you first agree to a blatant lie ... or worse, have you agree that these are individual human lives being exploited in earliest stage of their less worthy life, defining a higher purpose for these embryonic individuals, to sustain others who were not stripped of life support to harvest their body parts. The first level of agreement --that embryos are not individual humans-- is based on a calculated lie; the second descending level of agreement is acceptance of cannibalism based on that same specious axiom that embryos are not human individuals existing in the normal stage of a human lifetime.

[You might leave a portion out --from star to star-- if you're placing under your name.] *Regarding the specious arguments of nihilist, I've given up addressing directly the bloviations of leftist dead-souls. Instead,* permit me to elucidate the slippery slope many faithful people warned of way back when the outrage over in vitro fertilization was squelched ... a downward slope upon which we are now accelerating.

We’ve lost our hold on the goodness of supporting life (the humane necessity of life support). Now, exploitation of nascent life is a reality: the fetal tissue harvesting industry, with more than a billion dollars in business receipts each year, already influences when a woman ought to have the abortion she seeks because fetal tissue differentiation makes ‘later rather than earlier’ killing and harvesting of the fetus more desirable to those who will profit from the killing. But that's just the beginning of the horror: 1) embryonic stem cell exploitation now demands the conception and killing of untold numbers of embryos; 2) therapeutic cloning is based on the in vitro fertilization/conception of human life, with killing and harvesting as the goal when the embryo has differentiated sufficiently to make specific target-cell identification reliable. Both of these 'scientific advances' require our nation to accept the specious notion that an individual human life doesn't begin with at least first cell division (onset of mitosis).

Having read this far, some will insist, “But an embryo in a petri dish is not the same as an implanted embryo, not the same as a fetus, not the same as a born child, not the same as … “, yet the very science now hurrying to exploit embryonic life is convinced an embryo IS an individual human lifetime begun. “Outrageous assertion”, some will say. Okay, let the goals of their scientific pursuit speak for the scientists.

First, let us examine the goal of in vitro fertilization. In this procedure, a female gamete is fertilized by a male gamete (gametes are the ‘sex cells’ of the adult male or female). Once cell division is evidenced and the embryo reaches a desired number of body parts (the embryonic stem cells), the individual embryo is placed into the uterus of the target woman (and in most cases, several individual embryos are implanted at the same time, ‘running the odds’ so to speak; if too many achieve life support, the attending medical personnel will advise on aborting one or more, to improve the odds for the escaping survivor).

The technician watching the product of fertilization (the conceptus) in the ‘petri dish’ is looking for cell division, to assure that an individual life has begun to express itself, to grow … the technician implants only the embryo proven to be building her or his individual body!

Additionally, the technician must achieve this transfer from petri dish to human uterus at a specific stage in cell division, a specific stage in the lifetime already begun in a dish; if they try implanting too early, the embryo will not have the sticky coating it creates which allows for attachment to the uterine wall. Timing is crucial, timing that is based on proven growth processes of an individual human being's continuum of life. [If you’re wondering, this continuum concept of individual human existence is the exact same reasoning regarding the onset of puberty, for example, as a normal stage in individual human lifetime. Yes, the scientist views individual human life as a continuum, having a beginning at conception and first cell division, and continuing through a myriad of differentiations and organ expressions that could last for decades.]

Let us turn now to cloning, for the methodology of a technician seeking embryonic stem cells or a technician seeking to clone life has much in common with the in vitro fertilization process.

The clone is a genetic duplicate of a parent DNA donor. The in vitro fertilization technician conceives by bringing male and female gametes together, thus achieving the contribution of 23 chromosomes from female and 23 chromosomes from male, resulting in a conceptus having the normal 46 chromosomes. With similar goal of a conceptus in mind, the clone technician seeks to use a mature female gamete from which the chromosomal nuclear ball has been removed and the 46 chromosome nuclear material of the ‘adult donor’ is inserted. [‘Adult donor’ refers to an organism with a normal compliment of 46 chromosomes, not to the age of the donor. In some procedures, the product of male/female conception is stripped of the 46 resulting chromosomes prior to first cell division, and the 46 chromosomes of the donor are inserted.]

If the cloning technician seeks to fully reproduce the genetic donor, the conceptus is observed for evidence of cell division, then, just as with in vitro fertilization reproduction, the embryo is inserted into a woman’s uterus for continued life support … life support for a proven individual human being that is a genetic duplicate of the donor, with none of the ovum donor’s chromosomes. [There is ‘from-the-female’ DNA material in the de-nucleated ovum, associated with the mitochondria units of the ovum, but developmental characteristics of the newly conceived individual will follow the parent chromosomal route throughout growth and development. This is the complicated ‘stuff’ too rigorous for discussion in a short essay.]

If, instead of reproduction for a fully expressed parent donor, the technician desires ‘therapeutic cloning’, the embryo is not implanted in a woman’s life supporting body. Instead, life support is provided in the petri dish until a desired stage of cell differentiation is achieved. Then the embryo (or, if they could keep the individual alive long enough, a fetus) is harvested for the desired tissue, killing the individual being conceived for a tissue specific cloning purpose.

With first cell division, the newly conceived human life is constructing its own space capsule (the placental bubble and the fluid that inflates it) and its own individual body and blood. The woman in whom an embryo resides does not construct the placenta or the body of the newly conceived individual human life. In fact, it is the newly conceived individual who commandeers life support from the woman’s body ... it is the embryonic individual who initiates its own growth and development AND its life support from the woman’s body.

Cell division proves to the scientist that an individual human being is present. But there are other telling phenomena which prove the case that an individual human being is present as an embryo. Following are two.

The production of a sticky coating by the embryonic individual proves the desire to survive. Is that the same as the adult desire for shelter and sustenance? No, it is more akin to the hunger response, but it is unimpeachable evidence, to a scientist, that an individual being exists. Is that being, human? … If the parents are human, that’s always the case. Finally, if the embryonic individual did not construct the placental sac for its residence, the presence of a genetically foreign individual life in the woman’s body would cause her body to attack the ‘other’.

Why is it important to prove that an embryo is an individual human being? Because embryonic stem cell harvesting and therapeutic cloning are cannibalism.

The ‘enlightened’ expect you to accept the notion that an embryo is not an individual human being. Yet the scientist seeks to conceive 'designer' individual human life --with therapeutic cloning-- and the goal of the scientist bears witness to the truth that they are conceiving then for a time supporting the life of a unique human being. Giving tacit acceptance to a proven lie is bad enough --and we’ve done this for thirty years-- but to embrace cannibalism founded on such a lie is far more degenerate than breaching a moral or ethical dilemma.

If we do not accomplish a paradigm shift in the nation's perception regarding individual human life, two very unpleasant leviathans --embryonic stem cell exploitation and therapeutic cloning-- will devour what remains of our national goodness.

Only God’s mercy will continue our life support, as a nation, should we slide further down the slippery slope. We must somehow ascend back to the goodness of supporting all individual human life and repudiate the cannibalistic exploitation now looming as our future.

40 posted on 01/26/2003 1:06:56 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson