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A Modest Proposal.
Did you see Arlen Specter's justification for subsidizing stem cell research on human embryos?
The senator from Pennsylvania noted that "there are some 400,000 of these frozen embryos, which were created for in-vitro fertilization, which are going to be thrown away. ..." So why not put them to good use?
For some reason--can't imagine why--listening to the senator brought back the reasoning that German doctors once used to justify their experiments on concentration camp inmates. They were going to die anyway; why just throw them away?
So these subjects of scientific curiosity would be dipped into freezing water to determine how long downed fighter pilots might be expected to survive in the North Atlantic. When they froze to death, the experiment was successfully concluded.
Or the victims were injected with deadly germs to study the course of terrible diseases. Yes, they died awful deaths, but science would be advanced, terrible plagues cured. It was all for the greater good.
The trick is not to think of the subjects of these experiments as human, but as Jews, Slavs, Gypsies ... the eugenically undesirable. And remember that they were doomed anyway, and you can see the (brutal) logic of it.
That's the trick in this case, too: Think of these embryos as something other than human, not as microcosms somehow programmed to turn into fully developed human beings with all of a human being's capacity for good--and evil.
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- Magazine article from: Hypatia McLeod, Carolyn Baylis, Francoise January 1, 2006 700+ words
...human oocytes and, in particular, of human embryos. Arguments against the commodification of human embryos are many and varied. The most obvious, perhaps, start with the premise that human embryos are persons with full moral standing and...
- Congress May Vote Soon On Creation And Killing Of Human Embryos.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News August 1, 2001 700+ words
...wish to use cloning to mass-produce human embryos so that they can be used - - and killed...create any human beings, including human embryos. However, the Weldon-Stupak bill...wish to use cloning to mass-produce human embryos in order to harvest their stem cells...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News March 1, 2002 700+ words
...action on a bill to ban the cloning of human embryos. Daschle had earlier promised that...to ban the use of cloning to create human embryos. The bill is sponsored by pro-life...ongoing attempts to produce cloned human embryos, saying, "We should not as a society...
- Congress to Vote This Summer on Killing Human Embryos.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News June 1, 2001 700+ words
...issues relating to the protection of human embryos. Many members of Congress are under...to allow the creation and killing of human embryos for research purposes. It is vital...constituents in opposition to the killing of human embryos. Embryo-Destructive Stem Cell Research...
- Congress May Vote Soon on Creation and Killing of Human Embryos.
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News July 1, 2001 700+ words
...wish to use cloning to mass- produce human embryos so that they can be used -- and killed...create any human beings, including human embryos. However, the Weldon-Stupak bill...wish to use cloning to mass-produce human embryos in order to harvest their stem cells...
- Conditions for the Utilization of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived From...
- Newspaper article from: Transplant News September 24, 2000 700+ words
...pluripotent stem cells derived from human embryos may be conducted using NIH funds only...derived (without Federal funds) from human embryos that were created for the purposes...a. To ensure that the donation of human embryos in excess of the clinical need is voluntary...
- On human embryos and medical research: an appeal for ethically responsible...
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine March 22, 2001 700+ words
...is dependent upon the destruction of human embryos. Moreover, the National Bioethics...destructive harvesting of stem cells from human embryos. These developments require that the...research requiring the destruction of human embryos is objectionable on legal, ethical...
- New Poll: Americans Continue to Oppose Funding Stem Cell Research That Destroys...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 31, 2006 700+ words
...cell research that requires destroying human embryos, while only 39% support such funding...funded research that requires destroying human embryos. Our opponents also know this. No...s figure of 81% opposed to cloning human embryos for research is the highest in three...
- New Poll: Americans Prefer Funding Stem Cell Research That Does Not Require...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 23, 2004 700+ words
...research that does not require destroying human embryos. They also strongly oppose human cloning...cell research that requires destroying human embryos, with 43 percent in favor and 47 percent...that the research requires destroying human embryos," says Doerflinger. "Yet this fact...
- President Bush Urges Senate to Pass the Ban. House Passes NRLC-Backed Bill to...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News March 1, 2003 700+ words
...H.R. 534) to ban the cloning of human embryos, 241-155, after first rejecting...Bush's call to ban the creation of human embryos by cloning. Polls show the public is overwhelmingly opposed to the cloning of human embryos, but some senators are threatening...
Source: HighBeam Research, A Modest Proposal.