Shane Krouse is an MSU sophomore and State News columnist.
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
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It would appear that the "loving" God of these fundamentalists is many more times guilty of murder than all the human race's abortionists combined.
Yes, they are subhuman. It is GOOD they are not breeding, frankly. Sad for the abortees, of course.
"my parasite" and "not to breed" -- this is an open admission that the speaker herself is a parasite.
She should be sterilized immediately to prevent child abuse, by the pro-abortion side's OWN strictures.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
If you think they are bad when they are unborn,
just wait until they are 17.
They can suck blood like you can't believe.
There are already laws against incest.
Some liberals already commit incest, and seek to have abortions to cover up the evidence of ytheir crime.
Here's a question for you.
Since most of the third world (sub-Saharan Africe, women in Muslim countries, overpopulated Asia) will knowingly suffer throughout their entire lives, why aren't you choosing logical consistency and advocating genocide?
Question two for you.
Since liberals, you suffer horrible guilt for your Western upbringing and lifestyle throughout your life, why shouldn't folks condone mercy killings of liberals...?
No, their behaviour merits punishment.
Abortion is the work of the Devil. - Mother Teresa
It is not necessary for you to believe in gravity, for it to exist. Nor is it necessary for you to believe in free market capitalism for it to work. I use these examples because, like the human soul, they are not entirely understood - and yet their concepts are applied to daily life. So it is with the soul.
"Life always comes first."
"But women have the rights to their own bodies and what happens inside of them. You do not have the right to dictate a woman's womb."
The first quote is a retort to the second. A child's right to live trumps a woman's right to her body, every time.
"You didn't answer my question about incest tho. Why bring a child that will knowingly suffer throughout it's entire life into this world?"
How do you arrive at the conclusion that a child born from an incestuous relationship will suffer? Do you mean that they will suffer from the stigma affixed to those resulting from such unions? This can be averted by placing the child for adoption - which, in my view, is always the best solution in such a situation (i.e. incestuous pregnancy).
I think it more likely though, that you were referring to the common idea that such children will necessarily be deformed in some way. There is some truth to this idea, as a small gene pool certainly does increase the likelihood of reinforcing bad-recessive genes in offspring - thus leading to the deformations, ailments, etc. However, ALL genes - desireable, undesirable, and indifferent - are more likely to be increased in an isolated gene pool - and at the same time, there is NO guarantee that there will be reinforcement - just an increase in probability. (It is always possible that there aren't even any bad/undesirable genes to reinforce in the first place!)
In short, I don't conjure that a CERTAINTY of death is preferrable to a POSSIBILITY of deformity.
Hopefully, she'll never end up breeding at all.
Anybody can say anything.
It's still the work of the Devil, no matter how you slice it.
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