[MHGinTN]

During the human cloning and embryonic stem cell discussion at FreeRepublic.com, some have tried to characterize our discussions as fear-mongering when we stamp the practices as cannibalism. One or two have gone so far as to try the misdirection ploy of stating that no one is talking about 'eating babies'. We call this exploitation of human life 'cannibalism' because we believe the scientists themselves are perpetuating a lie they fully comprehend; the scientists doing the in vitro 'procedures' have as an axiom to their 'work' that the conceived embryos are individual human life. In order to have societal acceptance of the goals they seek with this nascent individual human life, these scientists need the public to either ignore the truth or accept the cannibalism as a means to a 'higher purpose' for these individual human lives conceived in vitro then harvested for their body parts. Public outcry is the only way these forces pushing modern cannibalism will be stopped. Sadly, our nation may have degenerated to the level where the potential supposed benefits weigh more heavily on the public mind than the real evils, the too real abrogation of society's moral contracts regarding the unalienable right to life.

[Remedy]

ÞSadly, our nation may have degenerated to the level where the potential supposed benefits weigh more heavily on the public mind than the real evils, the too real abrogation of society's moral contracts regarding the unalienable right to life.Ü

1. The Question of God A fundamental fact of our existence, one that we learn very early in life, is that we're on this earth for a very short time... The fear of abandonment is the first fear we experience as a young child a baby screams when its mother walks out of the room. Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital has shown that, in terminally ill patients, this is what they fear most the fear of being left alone, of being abandoned. It's a fear we harbor all of our life. Yet we cannot escape the harsh reality that every breath we breathe, every heartbeat, every hour of every day brings us nearer to the time when we will leave those we love.
2. Federalism: Reconciling National Values with States' Rights and Local Control in the 21st Century A constitutional principle without an actual constituency to back it up will soon crumble.
3. Death as Deliverance: Euthanatic Thinking in Germany ca. 1890-1933 Writing in 1989, the late Cardinal John O'Connor of New York City, an ardent pro-life advocate, predicted that euthanasia would "dwarf the abortion phenomenon in magnitude, in numbers, in horror." When one considers the sheer number of abortions that are performed each year and that have been performed over the last two decades, this statement borders on fantastic. But Cardinal O'Connor's are not the words of someone given to exaggeration. While there is nothing inevitable about human predictions, O'Connor's words are haunting. What is it that can hinder this "prophecy" from coming to pass?
4. Federalist No. 51 ...It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure....Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects...Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradnally induced, by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

 

 

[RightWhale]

some have tried to characterize our discussions as fear-mongering when we stamp the practices as cannibalism

There will be problems down the road aside from labels. But labels will be a problem, too. Can the legal system possibly come up with a satisfactory resolution to the problem of estate inheritance? Will clones be perceived as lacking souls? Is it wise to mess with Mother Nature? Do you own your clone?

[philman_36]

...the macabre practice of human fetal farming.
I'm not sure any more if were progressing or regressing as a civilization.