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
No, you are making absurd assumptions without a shred of evidence to back it up.
You've picked the wrong freeper, Trollie, if you want to get into a debate about this.
God is sitting in Heaven when a scientist says to Him, "Lord, we don't need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning."
"Oh, is that so? Tell me..." replies God.
"Well," says the scientist, "we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man."
"Well, that's interesting. Show Me."
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil.
"Oh no, no, no..." interrupts God ...
"Get your own dirt."
>>>>>It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?"
Wow, isn't higher education a boon to society. We are less of a culture because no one ever pulled this torpid little twerp aside and smacked him.
These people make me physically ill.
What decent man would ever want a woman for a wife who felt like that about her children????? or for that matter, The guy who wrote the piece would be considered by me as lower than the stuff I scrape off of my shoes.
Here is our tapeworm:
In his defense I would say that he is still a kid, freshly brainwashed by the public schools.
What a total 1D10T...
Considering this is in academia, it's a case of dog bites man...
Suffice it to say, his views are still at best utterly disturbing, if not outright sickening.
Somebody who says something like this is to be feared as in for your own safety. If he has no conscience about this and can rationalize like this in such a bizzaro way, then he could be thought to rationalize something along the same lines for others as well. Soooo logical, doncha know
Yep, the predictable pattern used in government sponsored genocide runs as follows: First you dehumanize, then you legally discriminate, then you exterminate. Pattern used successfully by Lenin, Stalin, Schickelgruber, Mao, Castro, Guevara, PolPot, etc (you get the picture...)
the infowarrior
If you are asking if there is a special plce in hell for those who would kill them, yes. If you are trying to equate *THAT* with being irate about the deliberate affront of gay "marriage", then you could, would, and more importantly should get some debate...
the infowarrior
I guess he's speaking from experience then.
Now--go ahead and hit me, for being uncaring, intolerant, sexist, bigoted, and all of the other usual names........
Indeed. He does look very young there. Still, you are responsible for your words when you are of college age. It's time for Mr Krouse to grow up and take a look at the world around him.
What are you talking about?
Maybe. Still you do not let them buy alcohol until they are 21 (in some places). Complete neuron connections might take even longer.
Hey, we can ping this kid so he knows we talk about him :)
When Tapeworm joins FR in next few days, we will know who he is.
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