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
Krouse needs to be reminded that she was once a "wad of cells".
He still is a wad of cells.
"Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes."
(Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche)
This put a smile on my face. Thought your mug could use one also.
Sophomore at Michigan State does not equate to scholar, but will graduate anyway
This guy's brain is just a wad of cells!
Well this is what legalizing abortion has produced--people that think like demons. Have you seen this from
zombietime?:
http://www.zombietime.com/walk_for_life/
Click at the bottom for Part II of the photos and then
on to Part III.
Ping to you too, Txbubba, for the link from zombie.
These people are like aliens to me. I don't understand how
people like this can exist.
How can you make these assumptions? There are young women who have been raped and carried to term who didn't raise their babies. They chose adoption.
There really isn't much difference between graduates of the 2 universities I am afraid.
A U of M graduate can usually be found behind a desk leading large numbers of people in successful enterprises, or pacing up and down the office pondering momentous business decisions.
Pretty much the same with a State grad, except that it's not behind but rather under the desk with a fifth of whiskey, it's not inside the office but outside in a back-alley, and instead of pacing they are knuckle-dragging.
;-)
But wait, it gets even sillier! Guess what the motto for the State U and their press office is?
"Advancing Knowledge, Transforming Lives."
So they are advancing knowledge by incorrectly claiming that a fetus is not a life-form, and they are transforming lives as in calling humans tapeworms whose life can be cold-bloodedly terminated!
Sickening!
Whoops, thanks for catching that. The Michigan State motto is the one I should have been looking for. It juxtaposes a whopper of an irony for this collegiate cold bloodedness.
I heard exactly the same thing 40 years ago, and it wasn't new then.
It was wrongheaded then, and it's wrongheaded now.
But I don't think those who spout this garbage care about right or wrong.
They're just trying to justify their selfish actions.
Life means nothing to idiots who think life is pointless and random. However, They are the ones who are pointless and random. That is why their soul will never rest.
Any chance of bringing the Web Site Neuremburg back to life?
Before you determine when life starts, you have to determine what life is.
Those scum don't qualify, to me.
Someone is in deep, deep, denial.
Wow. I am horrified by the complete and utter lack of compassion for unborn babies...for life. It's sickening!
Betcha he's not a biology major.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.