Posted by
Jennifer Waite on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:00:32 PM
This week Obama lifted what is commonly referred to as "The (evil, war-mongering) Bush ban on embryonic stem cell research". In actuality, it was a ban on tax-payer funded embryonic stem cell research. Never the less, it's all fair game now. And we can't be surprised. During the campaign we learned how little Obama valued some life even after birth.. slowly dying alone in a janitor's closet.
Silly social conservatives! Everyone knows the value of each human life depends on who "owns" that life. An embryo lost at 7 weeks through miscarriage of a wanted pregnancy? A tragedy. A 7 week old embryo ripped from the womb during an abortion? It never existed. You see the question isn't even "when does life begin?" anymore. Science has proven that if people are willing to see it. It's who controls that life. *insert bad taste comparison of a slippery slope to a birth canal here*
While conservatives and liberals united over being disgusted at "octomom" Nadya Suleman's decision to be implanted with 8 embryos we completely missed the point. Dr. Phil missed it too in his in depth interview with her. Her reason for being implanted with all 8 embryos (as well as her other 6 children) was that she saw them all as human lives. (By the way, noone thought in a million years more than 1 or 2 embryos would take) Frozen or gestated, they were all her children. That's her big mistake. That's the bottom line beneath all the backlash. I say we turn the papparazzi cameras and Dateline exposes (maybe they could take a break from the pedophile stings) toward the short-sighted fertility community who should've seen this coming.
I'm not against embryonic stem cell research because I enjoy watching Michael J. Fox suffer. I'm against it because I don't think Michael J. Fox's life is worth more than that of a frozen embryo with immeasurable potential.
And while I could never fully support the practice, I could possibly leave the issue alone if I thought the destruction of frozen embryos in fertility clinics was where it would end. But I'm afraid it won't. The logical next step will be the Planned Parenthood pamphlet telling their clients they're heroes for donating their aborted embryos/fetuses for research. Not to mention the eventual extraction of the middle man, creating embryos for the sole purpose of destruction.
While embryonic stem cell research from fertility procedure surplus is the easiest way to possibly cure these diseases we don't know that it's the only way. Adult stem cells and amniotic stem cells are also possibilities. And at least one company is looking into a procedure to harvest embryonic stem cells without having to destroy the embryo.
Yes, I'm a closed minded monster cavewoman for seeing the same miracle in a petrie dish that I saw in my own newborn children.