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I have underestimated President Obama. Today he announced that we can experiment on human beings and even create new humans for our experimentation. The good news is that he made this decision based only on science. Politics, vile nasty politics, had nothing to do with his decision. Evidently President Obama has discovered a way to derive ethics from science! This is amazing and only confirms the main stream media sense that President Obama is a Special Person. Most thinkers have believed that from “is” or “can” (”It is the case that people want to do x” or “It is the case that we can do x”) it was hard or impossible to get “ought,” but Obama has done it! We can experiment on humans so we should! We want to experiment on humans so we should! How simple! How convenient! How non-political! There are NO philosophical assumptions at play here what so ever. Praise be we have entered a non-ideological age. Praise Moloch we have entered a new age where scientists will no longer have to think about ethics before they do experiments. They will get to do whatever science tells them to do and science (without any politics or ethics!) will magically speak to them about what should be done. Over the petri dish the experiment will say, “We are good and noble, please continue this experiment!” and the scientist will know vox science, vox dei. I see no possible problems with this! Do you? If so then you are divisive, political, and a wing-nut. |
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So, question: if the embryos are going to be discarded, what benefit is there from not extracting the stem cells? If the embryos are damned if it is done and damned if it isn't, is there a real moral imperative to abstaining?
I'm not trying to be controversial, just trying to understand. I don't know much about stem-cell research, but want to become more educated.
Thanks!
I must admit that I am only noticing "comments" on this blog of late. I am sorry to delay getting back to you, but my "day job" keeps me busy enough that I can usually not respond.
To answer your questions briefly (you could try this link http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0102.asp for some good thoughts in more depth on this issue.
I do not favor discarding the embryos. I do favor those groups that take such embryos and allow them to come to term as the children they are. I have good friends involved in this process. I have spoken for a group http://www.nightlight.org/ that does such adoptions.
Folk can easily allow their embryos to be adopted rather than be destroyed. I encourage pro-life folk who seek more children to consider this wonderful ministry.