Those of us involved in the stem cell research debate have of late had to hold our noses to participate. That’s because the stench of the red herrings being dragged across lawmakers’ decision paths are, well, very ripe.
Much like the pre-Roe v. Wade abortion industry, fetal stem cell research advocates have been long on promises, but vague on specifics. That suits them just fine – because it leaves those listening to “fill in the blanks.” Those “blanks” are that fetal stem cell research will provide a cure for whatever disease ails you or a loved one. Like the legalized abortion industry, the reality is likely to be rather different.
Stripped of its cure-all fantasy, the argument of stem-cell research advocates boils down to the same road we’ve all traveled at one time or another during our lives: the end justifies the means. It’s never a pleasant journey, but the destination is frequently even worse than the trip.
It was three generations ago that Germany gave the world the gift of prophetic enlightenment when as a nation its people decided that killing was OK – provided it yielded benefits for those who remained alive. But by the grace of God and 16 million American soldiers who served on the battlefields of WWII, alongside millions of others from the West, many of whom never returned, the Nazi vision of a human race perfected through the medical knowledge gained in experimentation on those somehow deemed “less than human” was finally aborted.
In place of the government that would last a thousand years, the world was left with the haunting images of emaciated Jews, destroyed in the ovens of Nazi concentration camps, and the tear-stained eyes of wives and children whose husbands and fathers went away to war, never to return, their corpses lining the end-justifies-the-means road to Hitler’s final solution.
In the America of my youth, Margaret Sanger’s blood-soaked dream of perfecting humanity by denying parenthood to those deemed “unfit,” through providing easy access to abortion for the masses, became national policy. Tax dollars were forcibly taken from me and you and other people of conscience to pay for this horror. Religious people had their souls ripped apart by those with neither a conscience nor a soul. Now Sanger’s descendants, a priestly class dressed in fine white robes who love to be seen praying for the sick in the public square (cures, cures for what ails you!) – want us to have a go at their brand of human redemption: stem cell research on the remains of the unborn.
There are many in the debate surrounding this issue who are honestly seeking compromise. What they need to understand is that any road we begin traveling down leads to a certain destination. “Compromise” is only the path by which we as a nation agree to arrive at that destination. A frequent argument is that what’s being experimented on isn’t human. We even give it different, clinical-sounding names, like fertilized egg, or blastocyst. Nine months’ time should be adequate to convince even skeptics that the fertilized egg or the blastocyst is human: What, please, does it become? A pig, a cow, a chicken?
Let us suppose that as research progresses (fill in the blank for your favorite cure), that through genetic manipulation on the fertilized egg the optimal age for “harvesting” these cells turns out to be, say, two weeks after conception. You do see the difficulty, do you not, in starting down that road? In addition, funding for research barreling down the fetal stem-cell path will cut off funding for equally promising, morally unobjectionable, informed consent research taking different approaches, including adult stem cells.
In spite of the red herring cure for each of our favorite illnesses (simply fill in the blank), one fact remains constant: the killing fields.
From Nazi roundups, imprisonment, human experimentation carried out by physicians and finally destruction of the “physically and socially unfit”; to Margaret Sanger’s dream of intercepting and killing humanity’s unredeemed on their way down the birth canal; right up through today’s sanitized talk of blastocysts and “fertilized eggs” – as if people were salmon or chickens – always the prescription from the high priests of biotechnology bucks remains the same: redemption of the strong through sacrifice of the innocent.
They fail to realize that their narrow vision of utopia only occurs within the confines of a world no longer worth living in. In their quest for eternal life, the path they chose to walk destroys the essence of our humanity, and with it the very reason for wanting to live.
Those promising to redeem humanity through the sacrifice of innocents need to understand their own past before they are fit to chart our future. God has already provided for the redemption of humanity once and for all. He did it by allowing the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ, who died on a Roman cross 2,000 years ago. As Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished.” Any nation embracing the killing fields for salvation has rejected His offer – and will find itself consigned to the ash heap of eternity for its trouble. You will not take me with you again.
Those of us who have lived through America’s abortion holocaust need to remember the simple words of the Jewish survivors of the death camps: Never again!
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