Posted on 07/30/2005 5:52:31 AM PDT by NYer
Cardinal William H. Keeler, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Pro-life Activities, criticized Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's announcement today that he will support federally funded stem cell research that requires destroying human embryos.
Cardinal Keeler's statement follows.
"Today Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced he will support using federal funds to encourage the destruction of living human embryos for their stem cells. Despite the Senator's disclaimers to the contrary, this position is not 'pro-life.'
"Especially disturbing is the Senator's insistence that human embryos unwanted by their own parents are owed 'the same dignity and respect' as children and adults, but may nevertheless be killed for research material.
"Such destruction of innocent human life, even out of a desire to help others, rests on a utilitarian view that undermines human dignity and human respect, as Senator Sam Brownback ably pointed out today in his response.
"Senator Frist's effort to make an analogy with organ transplants also fails, because it would be gravely immoral as well as illegal to harvest any patient's vital organs when he or she is still alive.
"Despite his warning against offering 'false hope' to patients, Senator Frist also repeated claims that are untrue or misleading about the unique 'promise' of embryonic stem cells. No one has identified any disease that can be treated only with these cells; no one even knows whether they will ever provide a safe and reliable treatment for the conditions already being successfully treated using adult stem cells.
"These factual issues will no doubt be explored by others. My own central concern is that neither sound ethics nor good government can rest on the principle that 'the end justifies the means.' I commend President Bush for his laudable pledge to veto such legislation."
The reality is that YOU have IVF in America, as well as the rest of the world.
What would YOU intend for those children created by the excess fertilization?
This REALITY is both of ours.
Did you even look at what Frist actually said, or are you taking the FRAUDcaster's word for it?
-I suggest you peddle your pro-death stuff somewhere else...
In other words -take a hike buddy.
The LASlimes also quoted Frist, and completely reversed what he said by the way they quoted him. I asked only if you have read his whole speech, or are you taking the FRAUDcaster's word for what he said.
No one here is more pro-Life than I am. As illustration, I stated on many threads that I would support a ban on IVF - something not many people would go along with, unless they were evangelicals or very strict Catholics - and something that is vanishingly unlikely to occur even in this country, not to say worldwide.
I ask you respectfully, once more, with slightly different wording:
What is it that you believe is the most pro-life solution for the blastocysts over-produced by the IVF procedure?
I give you the courtesy of a reply simply because you are a freeper -anywhere else you could pack sand...
Now -looking at this from a Catholic standpoint I would never assist or promulgate or support the harvesting of innocents deemed no longer necessary -no matter the purpose -the ends do not justify the means. Supporting the final stage of the means is still supporting the means.
Looking at it from a simply ethical and logical standpoint there only three options and in the three one must look at not only the specific ends achieved by the horrific means at this time but the also the potential ends weighed against the potential means:
Option 1. Do nothing
Option 2. Oppose
Option 3. Support
I would question how they will keep the supply of stem cells replenished if they do come up with a miracle cure or two -where will the much needed plentiful supply raw materials otherwise known as murdered innocents come from? I look at this as a Pandora's box that once opened will be very hard to close. I would suggest the scientists work with adult stem cells until they get the 'logistics' and 'supply' issues in order BEFORE they tap into that which they may only want a nibble of now but may want to gorge themselves on later...
The private sector has free reign now without any restrictions I am aware of -Will government funding somehow make for better research -By opening the supply will we be fostering conservation? In my opinion the answers are no & no...
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