Snowflakes Falling?(Brief Article)

Some say the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Not so. Your faithfulness, constancy, and resolute determination to stand up for the powerless is another. The deathly fear on the part of the pro-death set that ordinary people will see the unborn as fellow members of the human family is surely another.

Which means that any proposal that qualifies as a "win-win" will automatically be denounced in semi- to full-hysteria mode. Understandable, because pro-death proponents are the ultimate believers in zero sum.

For them when a woman is in a crisis pregnancy situation and thinks she wants to abort, that's the end of that. Case closed. Helping her choose, say, adoption is denounced as a first-strike attack on the "right to choose," rather than a perfect example of exercising "choice."

Pro-abortionists, of course, prefer the more high-tone appellation "pro-choice," but they are anything but. Scratch most pro-choicers and you'll instantly discover someone who panics at the idea of affording women accurate information and a few hours to contemplate whether they truly do wish to end the life of their children.

Likewise, in the context of cloning and stem cell research that would require the death of human embryos, these same bastions of "choice" turn a deadly shade of pale when the unborn are treated as something more than research fodder. Take the news that the "Bush Administration Will Promote Embryo Adoption," as one headline put it.

Embryo adoption? We've talked about this marvelously generous concept in National Right to Life News, the "right to life newspaper of record." [To obtain a subscription, or give one to a friend, call us at 202-626-8828.] The idea is a model of simplicity, caring, and win-win.

When a couple creates via in vitro fertilization more embryos than they implant, most often they freeze the tiny new humans. However, many of these human embryos linger in a kind of suspended animation for an indefinite period of time. What to do if they are not to be implanted in the biological mother?