By: Don Caldwell
It always starts somewhere…
Excerpts italicized:
"For only the second time, the U.S. government has approved a test in people of a treatment using embryonic stem cells — this time for a rare disease that causes serious vision loss."
"Advanced Cell Technology, a biotechnology company based in Santa Monica., Calif., said the research should begin early next year, following the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration."
"Scientists hope to use stem cells to create a variety of tissues for transplant. But human embryos have to be destroyed to harvest those cells, which has made their use controversial."
Like the saying goes, if you give someone an inch they take a mile… it starts off as a single cell, but what is next…
What happens when you start harvesting human being for parts? Is this a good idea?
How about for a few cells, or some brain tissue?
What about an organ?
Or how about an entire human being?
What happens when you turn human life into a commodity, into a tool? Does it cheapen the value of it?
For so many reasons do we come up with to use someone, such as: for our health, for profit, for the greater good? They said the same things once upon a time to condone slavery. They said that slaves were more physically equipped for labor, and that it was for the greater good / profit for all…
Are embryos / fetus' better equipped to aid us in our experiments? Were Jews better equipped for this purpose during Nazi experiments?
What is the difference between a human being that is a day old and a month old? How about a year old? Or fifty?
At what point is it wrong to use people for their parts?
It is always more difficult to stop something once it is motion. Once we start to accept this in our society (just a few cells), it will be more difficult to stop it later on (When it becomes something worse)
Is this not fire we are playing with?
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