Posted on 08/22/2009 12:23:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
Now, one stem-cell expert is using these same arguments to promote harvesting organs from aborted fetuses.
Speaking at a conference in March, Oxford University stem-cell expert Sir Richard Gardner commented that he was surprised the possibility had not been considered, and that experiments in mice have shown that fetal kidneys grow extremely quickly when transplanted to adult animals
As reported in the UK’s Daily Mail, Sir Richard, an advisor to Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority sees this ghastly practice as a potential solution to the shortage of donated organs—and to what we are learning about the ineffectiveness of embryonic stem cells.
While advocates of using embryonic stem cells have long hailed them as the El Dorado of disease prevention, they’re not. Sir Richard calls the creation of fully functioning organs from embryonic stem cells “remote.”
Gardner isn’t a lone voice in this ethical wasteland. King’s College professor Stuart Campbell did not object. Speaking of the many babies aborted late in term, he said, “If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs.” He added, “I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus.”
Here in the United States, bioethicist Jacob Appel, writing on the subject in the Huffington Post, states, “The first striking feature of fetal organs is that their supply...is unlimited...pregnant women who provide fetal kidneys could do so repeatedly.”
Appel grants that abortions would likely rise as a result, but even so, he believes we have “a moral duty” to legalize the marketing of fetal organs. How nice, too, he says, that poor women could benefit by selling the organs of their aborted children.
Unimaginable as it may seem to some of us, there are scientists and so-called ethicists perfectly willing to carry their utilitarian thinking to its freakishly cruel, murderous extreme.
But while the U.S. has laws in place—at least for now—to prevent the harvesting of aborted fetuses, who knows what will happen if other countries begins selling fetal organs.
That day may not be far off. In 2003, Chinese doctor Wang Tong reported successfully growing an in vitro human heart for 13 days. Where did that embryonic heart come from? From an aborted 7-week-old fetus
All of this amplifies the need for Christians to boldly and steadfastly defend the sanctity and inviolability of human life from conception through natural death.
Because as medical technology advances and ethical standards crumble, the stakes only grow higher.
These monsters are truly depraved.
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Words escape me. When that happens, I pray. May God hold these tiny persons in the palm of His hand until we finish the fight to end abortion and respect life from womb to tomb. Amen.
With all due respect for Mr. Colson, it is the abortion that is the moral tragedy and crime. What is done with the bodies of the murdered children is by comparison a quite minor issue.
"But while the U.S. has laws in place—at least for now—to prevent the harvesting of aborted fetuses ..."
Several abortuaries rent space to organ harvesters who work for Fetal Tissue Sellers, so that when a female presents for abortion, the 'renter' can line up customers for the parts to be harvested due to the abortion. Senator Bob Smith was instrumental in stopping the direct sale of harvested parts, but the dead-soul abortionists got around this by renting space to harvesters for sale of fetal tissues to research institutes. There is a story of one person working at a research facility who opened the 'cold ship' box to find a tiny still alive baby with slowly beating heart on the wet ice. Ghoul has lost its meaning for democrats and their leftist goons.
They could redeem themselves by shifting their focus to adult Democrats who are walking around “wasting” their organs that could be put to good use in needy Republican voters.
>> These monsters are truly depraved.
The article describes a critical point of division between decency and absolute wickedness.
Not only are the motives of the so-called scientists depraved, the financial incentives derived through farming the organs of premature babies will create a market demand for dead ones.
>> I wrote a novel about this topic a few years ago (Evil Interrupted).
Available on the Internet?
Just think of the possiblities! They could imprison poor women just to have babies to harvest organs from why abort them? *sarcam* What is wrong with these people and their Josef Mengele like ideas?
This is absolutely grisly. I’m at a loss for words.
Well killing babies is a gruesome business as well as immoral.
Thanks for the ping.
But I dismissed the idea immediately as outlandish.
I've gotten out of that habit here, in the last 200 or so days, I've noticed.
“If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs.”
Memo to people who reason in this way: what goes around, comes around. Think "end of life counseling." Wait until the committees with their algorithms decide that, you know, since your last paper wasn't very popular, your vitals are worth more on the open market than they keeping you alive.
Yeah, just get your great, big, smart head around that.
Do you remember Congressman Bob Smith from NH? And how was he rewarded for exposing the baby body part business in Congressional Hearings....he was unelected!
I don’t. Do you have any links?
Frank Herbert explored the concept in 1973's Hellstrom's Hive, where the subjects in question were referred to as "reproductive stumps:"
He stared at the objects, unwilling to believe his eyes were reporting accurately. Each bench carried what appeared to be the stump of a human body from about the waist to the knees. Some were grossly male and some female. Among the females were a few whose abdomens bulged as though they were pregnant. Beyond waist and knees there was nothing that could be thought of as flesh -- only that tubing with its pulsing colors. Could they be real?. . . .He saw people parading along the benches there, bending, studying the stumps, examining the tubing. It was like a caricature of doctors doing their rounds. . . .
Those were human reproductive sections. He could imagine Hellstrom's hive keeping those monstrosities alive for breeding purposes. The thought of his own flesh subjected to such indignity sent shudders coursing through him. . . .Reproductive stumps!
The "axlotl tanks" of the Bene Tlielax in the Dune series were also revealed to be brain-dead women and their wombs.
To think that in less than forty years humanity has descended so far that such a concept could be openly entertained outside of hard science fiction novels. It's hard to even imagine.
At least Chuck’s right on this issue. He hasnt’ quite figured out illegal immigration yet.
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