Posted on 05/27/2003 6:15:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN
For years, essays opposing cloning and embryonic stem cell exploitation have been posted from this writer onto various discussion sites across the Internet. This will likely be the last of such efforts, for Science has won; the amorality of scientists has vanquished yours truly. The fundamental axiom that embryological human life is not the life of an individual human being has become so ingrained that to continue opposing the notion only furthers the goals of the scientists seeking unfettered exploitation of nascent life. From the scientists’ lofty positions, their carefully crafted derision for opposition to their flawed axiom passes for proof of their axiom.
The authoritative science outlet, Scientific American, now routinely publishes articles with the assumed axiom that the human embryo is not an individual human being, thus the embryo is fair game for all manner of exploitation, approved under the guise of application of science for the advancement of medical miracles.
In the June 2003 issue, on page 63, the article ‘Pandora’s Baby’ assumes as foundational truth the notion that embryos are not individual human lives, thus the conception of such, the storage of such, the implantation of such, and the discarding of such is enlightened application of science … and the implied proof of this axiom is the acceptance of in vitro fertilization (IVF), world-wide, numbering now more than an estimated one million individuals conceived and born via such technology since the first individual, Louise Brown, came into the air-world, 25 years ago.
Editorial staff of Scientific American magazine saw nothing untoward in passing the axiom along as foundation for their article, an article posing the notion that therapeutic cloning will likely be as accepted a few years from now as IVF is since Louise Brown’s birth. The author of the article cites the desire of scientists to keep separate the perception of reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning … or, as the author so craftily restated it, research cloning instead of therapeutic cloning. After citing this desire to keep separate methodologies that have the exact same first steps of cloning embryos in vitro, the author offers the notion that such a paradoxical assertion should be authoritative, thus lending substance to the purposed obfuscation (if not outright chosen lie; all cloning of embryos is reproductive, with only the end goal for the cloned individual life to define a specious difference).
This arbitrary positioning of ‘non-moral foundational principles’ regarding the earliest age of individual human beings may not seem of any great significance to the average reader at Scientific American, or of any merit to scientific minds convinced that their pursuits are beyond the realm of ethics and morality, as objective studies of life’s reality. But to this struggling writer, the assumption that embryo is not the earliest age along the lifetime continuum of an individual human being is an horrific plateau deep down along the slippery funneled slope of dehumanization for our species, in preparation for our acceptance of cannibalizing younger human beings to serve the lives of older human beings. It’s been a helluva war.
Author of the article in the June issue cites with derision the nay Sayers when IVF first began, decades ago. The derision is founded on the notion that alarmists based their arguments against the manipulation of embryonic life on ‘silly notion that exploiting embryos would lead to horrific things’. Well, if this writer is correct, and embryos are in fact individual human beings in their earliest age along their individual lifetimes, then what the magazine author is praising with ‘research cloning’ is in fact the warned of horrific potential, verified! What nay Sayers warned of, is where we have actually arrived with research cloning.
The magazine author doesn’t make a clear connection of past arguments, instead, she obscures the warnings from that past age by citing weaker versions of the underlying warning to enhance her derisive power … kind of like ridiculing the wheels on a funny looking car as a way to discredit the whole car.
Because the lies of those in support of abortion on demand (and that is the camp to which this female author belongs, as alluded to in sentences that denigrated objection to IVF as connected to the ‘failed anti-abortion movement’) have become so ingrained with so powerful publishers as Scientific American, this writer has come to realize the war is lost, come to realize that nay Sayers will not be granted venue in which to state objection … no matter how well written are essays countering this exploitation of individual human life, the controlling authorities cannot allowed them to be published, for the foundational axiom posited is contrary to the one the prestigious magazine has adopted as ultimate truth in their ‘amoral’ reality.
What impact will my bowing out of the war have upon the ultimate outcome? Likely, none; the war is already lost at the legislative level, with no less powerful figures to crush opposition than Senators Orrin Hatch, Arlon Specter, Barbara Boxer and Tom Harkin, assisted of course by the ‘amoral’ networks in search of empowerment for their media. These powerful forces have decided, for whatever constituency’s advantage, to push for therapeutic cloning protected by Federal law. Embryos don’t vote, and the folks donating embryos and the gametes to conceive future embryonic life don’t object to exploitation of nascent individual human life, so the powerful who are able to silence nay Sayers by ignoring them have already won the war.
Cannibalism is now an agreed upon fact for America’s future, as enlightened application of medical ‘miracles’. I suppose I should be relieved, I can now exit the battle and return to what amuses me; I’m already 57, so I won’t be around to witness further degradation of the human species; my granddaughter will live in an ‘age of cannibalism’. I shudder for her and the world she will inhabit, but then I realize, those cannibalizing human beings in their embryo age won’t tell the truth of what they’re doing, so life will go on, and on, and on, and … well, maybe. What is the longest reigning species for planet Earth?
Now, back to what I do for the fun of it … fiction.
Dateline, Inverarnan, Scotland and Sun City, Arizona, USA:
Today, the holy grail of medical sciences was realized, as scientists combining two diverse technologies verified the efficacy of their unique abilities.
Scientists building nano-sized arrays of molecule manipulators succeeded in sandwiching a cloned embryo between wafers of tasking circuits. A patient suffering from Parkinson’s will swallow a small double-layered wafer which will dissolve in the gut, all but one tiny activated circuit completed from one surface to the other of the sandwiching wafers, that is. Because of breakthroughs in circuit fixating, scientists have achieved near impossible isolation and protection from digestion for selected embryonic stem cells destined to grow a new source for the brain chemical failing in a Parkinson’s sufferer.
It is fully expected that this welded technology can stimulate the growth and regeneration of target organs throughout the body of a somatic cell donor in this therapeutic effort.
This circuit fixating technology has a bright future for further application of nanobotic manipulations in cosmetic surgical treatments. Not only can you be cured of heretofore incurable ailments throughout your extended lifetime, it will soon be possible to have the appearance you’ve always dreamed of, within reason, of course.
Spokesperson for the World Council of Churches issued a statement praising this achievement as the long prayed for freeing of humankind from the ravages of illness and genetic flaws, lifting humanity toward virtual immortality.
Citing hastily conducted polling of the American streets, this medical breakthrough has been met with mixed feelings, as most express doubts that they will be able to afford the application of the technologies.
Spokespersons for the National Democratic Party confirm that their minority legislators are drafting a bill to fund the technologies, in continuing efforts to provide unlimited, free healthcare to all Americans throughout their lifetime. In opposition, a spokesperson for the National Abortion Purveyors Rights Association has stated that they intend court actions designed to block extensive harvesting of female human gametes without the full participation of NAPRA owned Planned Parenthood facilities.
The newly formed company, Wafer Nan-E, holds exclusive patents on the combined technologies and anticipates no hindrance of their efforts in service to mankind, since the public demands newly developed measures to defeat disease and aging. Clinics are already scheduled for opening in France and Germany, with wafer production facilities in the planning stages all across Britain. It appears the ailing Chunnel will be bustling again, as technology marches on in service to humankind.
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M. Galloway may be reached at MHGinTN@mindspring.com for negative comment, but don’t expect a reply.
I don't think so. I think his arguments are flawed. We haven't won yet. An article in a scientific magazine began with the assumption that fetuses weren't really human. By using big words like "foundational principles" he makes it sound like a big deal when in fact it's just a single article. Now look what you've started: Ooook! Ooook!
Strawman. I never wanted to win what this article says we're all about. The author is an idiot.
OMG what a POS trashbag - OMNI magazine had more hard science than the current SA. Libral junk science bozos run the editorial board and dish out all sortsa goop like this. I stopped subscribing last year.
Too bad cuz I have some reprints of articles from the mid 1970s that are still awesome.
I didn't even read it and now I don't have to. Thanks!
"Therapeutic cloning--which seeks, for example, to use the genetic material from patients' own cells to generate pancreatic islets to treat diabetes or nerve cells to repair damaged spinal cords--is distinct from reproductive cloning, which aims to implant a cloned embryo into a woman's uterus leading to the birth of a cloned baby. We believe that reproductive cloning has potential risks to both mother and fetus that make it unwarranted at this time, and we support a restriction on cloning for reproductive purposes until the safety and ethical issues surrounding it are resolved."
If the reader doesn't suspect the authors/researchers/profiteers aren't being purposely obtuse, trying to obfuscate something, the next paragraph on page 14 following the baove reads like this :
"Disturbingly, the proponent of reproductive cloning are trying to co-opt the term 'Thera peutic cloning' by claiming that employing cloning techniques to create a child for a couple who cannot conceive through any other means treats the disorder of infertility. We object to this usage and feel that calling such a procedure 'therapeutic' yields only confusion."
To this old writer boy, the researchers/profiteers/authors are trying to obfuscate the truth that what they are setting out to do is reproduce the somatic nuclear material donor in order to obtain tissue-matched stem cells. Either the obfuscators are purposely lying or they don't want the public to make the connection that ALL somatic cell nuclear transfer methodology (cloning of whole organisms) conceives a clone match to the donor, or the researchers actually don't believe the embryo so conceived is an individual human life. I can be assured the researchers DO know the conceived individual embryo is a human life, a cloned individual of the donor, albeit at the earliest age of the new individual as an embryo, because if they weren't conceiving a match, they wouldn't seek to harvest stem cells from the 'thing' for use in the 'thing's' parent! So, the researchers are being purposely deceitful, obfuscating the truth to manipulate the public to allow their research, their brand of cannibalism to continue.
You really ought to read the essay, or avoid posting on the thread if you're so easily directed by others that you are too lazy to read and discuss. Why even post your smarmy remarks?
....and when the final trumpet sounds, and we stand (kneel) before Him, we can say that we stood in the gap for the least of them - for the little babies, so precious and totally defensless.
And those despicable people who knowingly allow the sacrifice of babies on the altar of moloch - and even for those who are so easily led astray and think "personal freedom" is the be-all and end-all of our existence - there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Continue to stand in the gap -
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm"
Ephesians 6:12
(And I'm so sorry for your recent loss, Tax-chick).
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