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Posted on 09/28/2002 7:43:05 PM PDT by Askel5
78 Lives, er, Lines and Counting ... Latest Additions to the NIH's Stem Cell Registry
This would include the embryonic stage ... the eye of the needle through which each of us passed, subsequent to our individual Big Bang "something from nothing" to get here.
Quite a lot, depending on how many you got, when they were killed and whether or not you have a steady supply for me.
The many medical and scientific witnesses who testified disagreed on many things, but not on the scientific evidence that the unborn child is alive, is a distinct individual, or is a member of the human species.They did disagree over the value question, whether to give value to a human life at its early and most vulnerable stages of existence.
Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value.
Some have said that only those individuals with "consciousness of self" are human beings. One such writer has followed this deadly logic and concluded that "shocking as it may seem, a newly born infant is not a human being."
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the "quality of life" ethic.I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.
American was founded by men and women who shared a vision of the value of each and every individual. They stated this vision clearly from the very start in the Declaration of Independence, using words that every schoolboy and schoolgirl can recite:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
If I'm murdered, y'all can use my body as a football dummy at the Steelers' training camp, if it will do some good.
I won't care, and you know why? Because I'll be dead!
Why is there outrage about cloning something that's already dead.
Few were defending Nancy's position on that thread on you know it.
[Lincoln] warned also of the danger we would face if we closed our eyes to the value of life in any category of human beings:
I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
You don't get it yet, do you?
I told you!!! Never mistrust me again.
Another William Brennan—not the Justice—has reminded us of the terrible consequences that can follow when a nation rejects the sanctity of life ethic:
The cultural environment for a human holocaust is present whenever any society can be misled into defining individuals as less than human and therefore devoid of value and respect.
I know that when the true issue of infanticide is placed before the American people, with all the facts openly aired, we will have no trouble deciding that a mentally or physically handicapped baby has the same intrinsic worth and right to life as the rest of us
Fooled ya, didn't we, Ron?
We like to Purchase more perfect Babies, thanks.
He had some disappointing moves as President as well.
But, as Torie says (and as any pragmatist will tell you) politics is a tough mistress.
Probably goes with the territory of Party politics and pressure on "VITAL" issues and doesn't diminish in the least the truth of what he's saying here.
I wish he could have been more consistent ... including marrying a pro-life wife. But, looking the the past two Republican Presidents, that's damned hard to do these days.
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