Sliding down the slippery slope
Have you heard about this story? Sure, it isn't happening hear in the USA, but it potentially could and it's scary!
A couple in Britain has screened her embryos used for IVF for the gene for breast cancer and only implanted those that did not carry that gene. So, a life isn't valuable if there is a chance that you might grow up and develop cancer?
Sure, the intention is there, but what happens to the life that screens as positive for the gene for cancer?
We create all this life and just toss it out so haphazardly. Does it really mean nothing? We want to create embryos to be used in stem cell research...oh wait, no we just want to use the embryos that aren't going to be used. But why have we created all this life to begin with?
This is a very slippery slope that we have come to; it will so very quickly slide into deciding which embryos are worthy to have come to term and which we will just nonchalantly toss out. Where will it end?
I understand the desire to want to have your own children; I understand that people will go to all lengths to give birth to their very own. In the meantime, children are being moved from one foster home to the next because they don't have a place to call home. If it's truly about creating a family, a place full of love and warmth, there are too many children that need to be adopted and cared for.
We need to put a stop to the practice of screening embryos and tossing the ones we don't like; because that's what's really happening.
Labels: Christian Values and America
posted by Jenni at
3:31 PM
5 Comments:
Hi Jenni,
I agree and it might help to put scientists back in their place, that of being mere human beings, if we stop to consider the true meaning of the word, create. To create is to make something out of nothing which only God can do. Anything we call creative that humans do is simply just tinkering with what God has created. Our tinkering gets us into so much trouble and scientists get away with it because of the pedistal we have placed them on. They are the high priests of our day performing magic for us through their technology which only they have the special knowledge to produce.
I don't know how much further this will be allowed to go but I can't help but be reminded of a song that was popular when I was a child. One line goes, "In the year 2525 if man is still alive and woman can surive they may find...you'll take your son and your daughter too from the bottom of a long dark tube, Ohhhh woe!" It is surprising how that song truely has proven itself as prophecy and how close we are to being the world that they described.
A couple of points:
You touch on the way that the demand is much higher in terms of GETTING children (both for the adopting parents and for the nation), and yet we've aborted millions of them.
Also, gene screening is not an academic issue. There are something like 3% less women than men in India due to ultrasonic sex screening of babies (i.e. if the baby is female they perform an abortion). At some point, this will probably be done at the level of cancer risks, but it is already happening in a massive way.
Isn't the value of life far higher than cancer risk and sex?
The value of life is way higher. One argument I heard from this article was that they were actually benefiting future generations from not having cancer as well. Nothing will get rid of cancer; and what they've actually done is prevented more research into cancer.
I don't wish cancer on anybody, but there are other consequences that people aren't thinking about here. They are only thinking about THIS child, they aren't thinking about the impact this will have on the world.
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They are protecting future generations from getting cancer!?
That is exactly the kind of pro-eugenics science that the AP and the main stream media toss around, and the reason people are dropping their subscriptions.
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