The Destruction of Human Embryos is Wrong. It Cannot be Justified, and It Must Stop.
Michael J. Fox has been front and center in the news recently. He presents an emphatic plea to vote for specific political candidates who support embryonic stem cell research and public funding for it.
Mr. Fox is suffering from a terrible, degenerative disease. I wish he and others did not have to suffer and I hope we can find a cure for Parkinson's and other diseases. There are legitimate, and morally sound methods for seeking cures. They need to be researched with enthusiasm. We have tremendous resources, skills and technology at our disposal. Their collective worth is nothing short of miraculous.
The destruction of human embryos, however, must never be considered a viable path to medicine. It is morally wrong. If we continue to destroy human life for research, not only will we fail at science, but we will ultimately fail as a civilization as well.
Until very recently, the scientific community was revealing that virtually all experiments using human embryonic stem cells have failed miserably. Now, all of a sudden, the media is telling us that scientists almost unanimously are professing the gilded promise of this practice. It is nothing short of amazing that we can merely get enough important people to state something and feel that as a result, we can change reality.
Even if embryonic stem cells could cure these diseases completely, it makes absolutely no difference. Even if every politician made embryonic stem cell research his or her top priority, it makes absolutely no difference. Even if every American favored this practice and offered their tax dollars to fund it without ceasing, it makes absolutely no difference. Truth is absolute. It does not change with polls, funding, rhetoric, or emotion. The truth is the destruction of human embryos is wrong. Nothing in this world can make it right.
During the early forties in Germany, Dr Mengele was interested and motivated to find cures for disease. He was a medical scientist in one of the most technologically developed societies in the world. It seemed fair indeed that experimental subjects that were slated to be destroyed anyway should be used to find cures and combat disease. If you found out that you directly benefited from the research conducted by Dr, Mengele, would you not be mortified? After all, human beings who were judged to be unworthy to live suffered and died horrible deaths so that the superior German race could live better lives. The Third Reich was our omen. We are called to heed its bitter lessons.
We in the United States are dancing dangerously close to our own dark destiny. We relatively apply human worth as flippantly as we appraise the marketability of a piece of real estate. We then pluck these vital life issues out of the moral and ethical realm and cast them into the cheap confines of politics. Shame on us for this. Lately, we are suffering from something far worse and terminal than Parkinson's Disease. We are losing our wisdom and our hearts are being paralyzed with indifference. No level of suffering can possibly compare with that which we will endure when we advance a culture of death.
Patrick Flynn
Michael J. Fox has been front and center in the news recently. He presents an emphatic plea to vote for specific political candidates who support embryonic stem cell research and public funding for it.
Mr. Fox is suffering from a terrible, degenerative disease. I wish he and others did not have to suffer and I hope we can find a cure for Parkinson's and other diseases. There are legitimate, and morally sound methods for seeking cures. They need to be researched with enthusiasm. We have tremendous resources, skills and technology at our disposal. Their collective worth is nothing short of miraculous.
The destruction of human embryos, however, must never be considered a viable path to medicine. It is morally wrong. If we continue to destroy human life for research, not only will we fail at science, but we will ultimately fail as a civilization as well.
Until very recently, the scientific community was revealing that virtually all experiments using human embryonic stem cells have failed miserably. Now, all of a sudden, the media is telling us that scientists almost unanimously are professing the gilded promise of this practice. It is nothing short of amazing that we can merely get enough important people to state something and feel that as a result, we can change reality.
Even if embryonic stem cells could cure these diseases completely, it makes absolutely no difference. Even if every politician made embryonic stem cell research his or her top priority, it makes absolutely no difference. Even if every American favored this practice and offered their tax dollars to fund it without ceasing, it makes absolutely no difference. Truth is absolute. It does not change with polls, funding, rhetoric, or emotion. The truth is the destruction of human embryos is wrong. Nothing in this world can make it right.
During the early forties in Germany, Dr Mengele was interested and motivated to find cures for disease. He was a medical scientist in one of the most technologically developed societies in the world. It seemed fair indeed that experimental subjects that were slated to be destroyed anyway should be used to find cures and combat disease. If you found out that you directly benefited from the research conducted by Dr, Mengele, would you not be mortified? After all, human beings who were judged to be unworthy to live suffered and died horrible deaths so that the superior German race could live better lives. The Third Reich was our omen. We are called to heed its bitter lessons.
We in the United States are dancing dangerously close to our own dark destiny. We relatively apply human worth as flippantly as we appraise the marketability of a piece of real estate. We then pluck these vital life issues out of the moral and ethical realm and cast them into the cheap confines of politics. Shame on us for this. Lately, we are suffering from something far worse and terminal than Parkinson's Disease. We are losing our wisdom and our hearts are being paralyzed with indifference. No level of suffering can possibly compare with that which we will endure when we advance a culture of death.
Patrick Flynn
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