Saturday, June 30, 2007

Yahoo gets a story pretty close on stem cell unethics

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070529/2/13lkj.html
Australia joins the UK as State sanctioning tiny, unique human creations with animals and using human fetuses to be mothers and then killing the moms and such. They rightly say no cures forthcoming anytime soon for such 'bold' new State sanctioned 'science'.

I find myself in agreement with the Anglicans there and the Catholics. The sad part is the assessement that without such specific application of science, there is no hope for cures. That is highly questionable. Should we toss all our research for cures for cancer cause it isn't currently research requiring the creation of unique human lives for destruction/experimentation, cause it is hopeless witout this one approach?

I believe what they've passed in Australia should not only NOT be State sanctioned and supported, but should be discouraged and punishable by law. That said, I'd be genuinely curious of your thoughts both on this topic and on how yahoo reports on it in the link above.

2 comments:

Joseph Ravitts said...

C.S. Lewis wrote a very heavy novel, "That Hideous Strength," in which he imagines a gang of Antichrist-wannabe's trying to take over England and eliminate Christianity. A dorky young man called Mark Studdock, who is the viewpoint character in portions of the book, finds himself recruited into the outer fringe of the conspiracy, believing it to be intended for the good of humanity. As he gets closer to the real inner workings of the plot, Mark asks one of the villains to tell him more about how they plan to bring peace and prosperity to the world. The villain then scoffs that all that peace-and- prosperity talk is only for gullible outsiders; the insiders know that they really want to kill off a large part of the human race, to make more room for the "superior" elite. This comes to my mind when I hear about pro-death scientists persisting in baby-killing research.

Joe B. Whitchurch said...

And THAT really is the point, isn't it. Thanks Joseph.

I wrote a little song that underscores 'the controllers' viewable here, FYI...

Genetic boundaries.