Fetal Stem-Cell Research

Fetal Stem-Cell Research

Dear Editor:

The debate on fetal stem cell research is raging. Those who's god is Science and whose goal is money are chaffing that many citizens are hesitant to approve their request for government funds for their research.

To avoid confronting and responding to the hard question of the humanity of the living fetus which they must destroy to get the raw material for their research, the Biomedical industry promises us that if allowed access to living fetuses and vast sums of government funding they can cure almost everything. In just two articles I see they might find a cure for diabetes, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy and infertility. The logic is, if they might possibly do all this, who are we to say no or to put reasonable constraints on their ambitions?

Since the advent of modern medical science there has been an ongoing tension between those who wish for unlimited access to human subjects for their scientific experiments and those who sought to protect human life from scientists bereft of ethical consciences.

The scientists had their way in Hitler's Germany. In the name of advancing medicine, they had access to thousands of living human beings who had been denied legal protection. They injected, dissected and experimented in ways previously denied them. They did discover some useful information that benefited others, but the subjects of their research suffered and died from it.

Japan gave their scientists access to the conquered Chinese and they eagerly pursued their research to advance medicine.

Today China advances medicine by clinically executing thousands of prisoners and selling their organs to improve the health of ailing folks with the money to buy them.

Today's debate on embryonic stem cell research would not be transpiring had we not legalized abortion 29 years ago. To achieve that moral revolution:

Courts had to deny the humanity of the unborn child.

Woman had to be brainwashed into believing the living thing in their womb was not a human life.

Voters had to be convinced that it was a good thing to abort over a million of these "non-human things" every year and even for their taxes to pay for much of it.

For years there has been a brisk business in buying and selling aborted babies for various medical and scientific purposes, but it was done in an unpublicized, covert market. Now however, the stakes are higher. Millions, perhaps billions of federal dollars for research cannot be hidden, so the press is on to convince Joe and Jane Doe, citizen tax payers, that it is good to take living human embryos, which all of us once were, and process them into material for the laboratory.

The usual clutch of professional medical and scientific ethicists are lined up to put their stamp of approval on the request of the scientists. That is supposed to make it OK. The propagandists are busy discrediting the Christian leaders who speak on behalf of the innocent lives sacrificed in the name of this latest scientific program. The old Hippocratic Oath said "I will do no harm."

Scientific progress that comes from harming or destroying human life we can do without.

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