Posted on 11/11/2007 6:07:31 AM PST by BGHater
PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create "spare-part babies" under controversial laws published yesterday.
The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating "saviour siblings" who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukemia.
Experts said that one day they could create a "designer baby" with kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure.
More immediately, saviour siblings could give umbilical cord blood or bone marrow to family members in the hope of treating conditions such as sickle cell anaemia.
The Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated in British Parliament and is expected to become law in 2009.
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I used to say "life is B movie." now I think it's a really bad sci-fi flick. Maybe it's some kind of double feature, or a film festival.
This cannot possibly be true. Creating a life for the soul purpose of killing it by “reassigning” it’s body parts.
Even the heartless, idiocy of the left wing could not sink to this level.
More info:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=492800&in_page_id=1770
Close to a Monty Python movie, specifically "The Meaning of Life."
One scene in particular comes to mind... "We're here for your liver..."
Mark
Here comes that slippery slope!
Mel
God is probably going to get a little PO’d at this stuff pretty soon. IMHO
Madness, if true. Bone marrow is one thing, but body parts takes things to an all new and terrifying level. God cannot be pleased with us.
The people involved in this are gonna burn.
Maybe you’re right. I didn’t see it...but I did read about the Global Warming thing...
May God forgive us all!
ping
Ah, the innocent eighties!
(Anyway, the story ended with a kindly group home caretaker , who had taught some of the clones to read and write despite the rules, allowing one of the clones to escape. He goes out into the world with the intent to track down his 'original' and let him know of the suffering his carelessness (minor amputations to the clone because of his accidents)had caused, and perhaps to get revenge.
Come to think of it, I believe the story was set in a future UK, and it was London where the clone went. )
"The Meaning of Life" may be the least PC, and certainly the sickest movie, that Monty Python did. The scene I to which I referred was where some medical orderlies knock on a man's door, telling him that they were there for his liver. You see, he had signed his organ donor card, but it seems he didn't read it carefully. So, they took his liver.
Mark
Isn’t it interesting testimony that when God creates life, He does so out of love and heartily seeks an eternal relationship with man. When man attempts to counterfeit that power, he does so without love for the person being formed and seeks to use that life as a byproduct for his own physical benefit.
Mark
“It’s medical experiments for the lot of you...”
Isn’t free healthcare wonderful?
OK. Let’s take this to the sick extreme by analogy.
People I know who restore cars can find themselves in a similar quandry.
They are attempting to restore the first car they obtained, when they discover the ‘parts car’ they got is really in much better shape. In fact, it runs fine, the body is better, and the interior is flawless.
Which one gets broken up for ‘parts’?
Children, though, are not cars.
I have no problem with growing specific parts, in fact, I think that should be the goal if ways to restore the ones which exist cannot be found, as the kidney or whatever grown for the specific person would be a perfect match.
But I could never countennance creating a life specifically for the purpose of taking it to extend another life, and that includes extending my own.
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