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Posted on 08/02/2006 3:19:21 PM PDT by wagglebee
ANN ARBOR, August 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a July 26 column that reads almost like a parody of the slogans of the abortion movement, a sophomore at Michigan State University has declared that the unborn child is a parasite, similar to a tapeworm that should be "annihilated."
Writing for The State News, the campus paper of Michigan State University, one of the largest univerities in the U.S., Shane Krouse writes, "The fetus is merely a wad of cells. A mere wad of cells doesn't equate to a fully functioning, living human being. A wad of cells cannot make its own cognitive decisions… Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?"
Krouse asks rhetorically, "How can you kill something that is not yet living?" He answers his own question saying that the child after birth is "alive" because it no longer receives nutrients and oxygen through the umbilical cord from the mother. He does not clarify how a thing that processes nutrients and oxygen, grows, moves independently and replicates its own cells – the usual criteria for living things established by the biological sciences – can be not alive in the womb but suddenly alive at the moment of birth.
Nick Mrozowski, the editor for The State News, told LifeSiteNews.com that Krouse's piece does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the newspaper itself. "When we publish a columnist it is their view," he said. "We routinely publish columns that the paper does or does not agree with."
"[Krouse] has reinvigorated a debate in our community that is important. A debate is good."
Mrozowski said that the reponse to Krouse's inflammatory language has been a mere handful of letters, some opposed and some in favor.
One woman wrote to the State News to say that she agreed with Shane Krouse that the unborn child is a parasite that may be killed with impunity.
Clementine Ford of Adelaide, Australia wrote in response that because the "reasoning for abortion is personal…there can be no definable ‘valid’ reason for having one."
"Personally, I aborted my parasite because of failed contraception and a fervent desire not to breed right now. I feel no guilt for my actions."
See the original State News story at
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=36986
Non artes, non scientia, non veritas. - Today's University of Michigan.
If the unborn child is regarded as parasite, does this mean the UN will lift the ban on DDT? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Did Shane have a mother, or was he born from an egg laid in a shittepile on the side of the road?
Exhibit A of a completely seared conscience, and probably a raving sociopath.
how sad
God loves you Shane
How sad.
I am a believer in abortion on demand: POST PARTUM ABORTION and on my demand only; but NEVER innocents in the womb. There are plenty of people the world would be better off without. What better solution than POST PARTUM ABORTION?
Speaking of parasites...
I'd like to see what this girls financial aid, student loans, student housing, medical, and allowance from the pay-rents ammounts to.
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""The fetus is merely a wad of cells. A mere wad of cells doesn't equate to a fully functioning, living human being. A wad of cells cannot make its own cognitive decisions…"
And, you're a slightly larger wad of cells, Shane Krouse. Living you may well be, but full function appears to have eluded you. Should you make the decision, cognitively or otherwise, to cease being a tedious tapeworm upon society, you will affect the function of no life other than your own. Think about that, parasite, the next time you feel the need to diminish the humanity of the least among us.
They really can't tell the difference a human being and a tapeworm? These people are warped.
sophomore at Michigan State University the little guy likely does not even know how to choose a good beer and we are concerned what he thinks about life.
saw a great sign yesterday
Young men think old men are fools
old men KNOW young men are fools
Yet another reason why I'm glad to me a Michigan Tech grad! Sure, there may be some liberals there, but the cold and on-campus gun-range tends to scare most of them off....
I'm guessing Krouse isn't a biology major.
I have news for these people: a child is a "parasite" until about the age of 22. Or even later. If we're going to murder the language, let's slaughter it completely while we're at it.
"[Krouse] has reinvigorated a debate in our community that is important. A debate is good."
Suppose he had submitted a column arguing that black people were not human beings with rights that others should respect. No doubt that would "reinvigorate" debate, but I'm quite sure it would not have seen print in a college newspaper. These kids have minds of mush, but by sophomore year the mush has been poured into PC molds and is hardening fast.
The kids, of course, don't see that they are being brainwashed. They think their minds have been awakened by becoming immersed in the give-and-take of academic debate. They show it off by spouting rancid bilge like this boy's op-ed . . . or by defending such swill as the exercise of free speech.
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