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To: Hildy; free_at_jsl.com; Coleus
They are cells in a petri dish...

They are fertilized ova, the beginning of human life.


Prenatal diagnosis, which presents no moral objections if carried out in order to identify the medical treatment which may be needed by the child in the womb, all too often becomes an opportunity for proposing and procuring an abortion. This is eugenic abortion, justified in public opinion on the basis of a mentality--mistakenly held to be consistent with the demands of "therapeutic interventions"--which accepts life only under certain conditions and rejects it when it is affected by any limitation, handicap or illness.

Following this same logic, the point has been reached where the most basic care, even nourishment, is denied to babies born with serious handicaps or illnesses. The contemporary scene, moreover, is becoming even more alarming by reason of the proposals, advanced here and there, to justify even infanticide, following the same arguments used to justify the right to abortion. In this way, we revert to a state of barbarism which one hoped had been left behind forever.
Evangelium Vitae

95 posted on 09/03/2006 4:42:07 PM PDT by NYer ("That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah." Hillel)
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To: NYer; sine_nomine; Hildy; free_at_jsl.com; detroitdarien; orionblamblam; The Cuban
THE CODE FOR HUMAN LIFE
E-Forensic Medicine ^ | Frederick T. Zugibe, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., FCAP, FACC, FAAFS

102 posted on 09/03/2006 4:49:55 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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To: NYer

An adult is just a bunch of cells on a couch. A newborn baby is just a bunch of cells in a cradle.

How big a bunch of cells does an individual have to have in order to be worthy of life?


122 posted on 09/03/2006 5:58:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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