Those silly restrictions on infanticide

  • I shouldn’t post stuff this late, but I just read this and it makes me sick.

    WASHINGTON – Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s announce­ment Mon­day that he is over­turn­ing his predecessor’s poli­cies toward embry­onic stem cells also will include a broad dec­la­ra­tion that sci­ence — not polit­i­cal ide­ol­ogy — would guide his administration. …

    “We’ve got eight years of sci­ence to make up for,” said Dr. Curt Civin, whose research allowed sci­en­tists to iso­late stem cells and who now serves as the found­ing direc­tor of the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land Cen­ter for Stem Cell Biol­ogy and Regen­er­a­tive Med­i­cine. “Now, the silly restric­tions are lifted.”

    So every­one wins, right? Sci­ence is good. Mirac­u­lous cures — which haven’t exactly been the hall­mark of stem cell research up to now — are sure to abound. Once again, we can count on the smart peo­ple to do what’s best.

    Well, there is just that one silly objec­tion that the stu­pid peo­ple have.

    Bush and his sup­port­ers said they were defend­ing human life; days-old embryos — typ­i­cally from fertility-clinic left­overs oth­er­wise des­tined to be thrown away — are destroyed for the stem cells.

    As you’d imag­ine, that leads to the dis­mis­sive claim that “Hey, these are mostly going to be thrown out any­way. Just ‘sur­gi­cal waste,’ really.” But a pro-stem-cell Repub­li­can isn’t even hid­ing behind that fake-out.

    “Frankly, fed­eral fund­ing of embry­onic stem cell research can bring on embryo har­vest­ing, per­haps even human cloning that occurs,” he said Sun­day on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We don’t want that. … And cer­tainly that is some­thing that we ought to be talk­ing about, but let’s take care of busi­ness first. Peo­ple are out of jobs.”

    May God have mercy on the unborn in this coun­try. Appar­ently we won’t.


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    March 8th, 2009 | Grace | 2 Comments |

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  • Anam Cara 03.08.2009

    Grace,

    Don’t become dis­heart­ened. Immanuel — God (is) with us!

    Although the admin­is­tra­tion is doing awful things, there are Amer­i­cans out there work­ing daily to make a dif­fer­ence. We are part way through the lat­est 40 Days for Life cam­paign. The lat­est report is not only that 92 babies have been saved, but also that 13 peo­ple who used to work in the abor­tion indus­try have left for other jobs.

    One baby saved doesn’t sound like much, but remem­ber that the angels rejoice over just one who comes to repen­tance! (Luke 15:10) They MUST also rejoice over a sin­gle child saved — and so should we and not only despair over those lost.

    See the link below and check the blog and, if there is some­thing in your com­mu­nity, get involved!
    http://www.40daysforlife.com

    PS Thanks for hints on Alaska!

  • Grace

    You’re right, I need some­thing to cheer me up. For some rea­son, that news really got me down. I’ll check out the link. I think there are some Kansas City activ­i­ties with this.

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