Re: [asa] The unexpected burden of IVF

drsyme@cablespeed.com wrote:

>"..but if the embryos are there, and they are
>just going to be destroyed, why shouldnt we use
>them for stem cell research, even if one thinks
>that they are fully human? ... I was reading an
>issue of PCSF from Dec 06 on this
>topic.
><http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2006/PSCF12-06Peterson.pdf>http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2006/PSCF12-06Peterson.pdf
>You, should read it. One of the criteria he
>proposed was that a soul requires a body. In
>other words "ensoulment" could not occur in an
>embryo that is just a collection of cells, but
>would require some differentiation, some
>development of organs. And even though he did
>not mention it, I think that at the point that
>the neuro-axis is differentiated is probably as
>good a point as any to consider the embryo human. " ~ Jack

@ "Christians" who make that argument - in order
to be consistent - would have to be prepared to
say that since Jesus didn't have (their
definition of what they think is) a "body" as an
embryo , it would also be okay to use it for stem cell research.

How many of those who earn their living in the
abortion industry, the fertility industry, and
other "related" multi-billion dollar
industries, are people who believe in a God who
actually came in the flesh and dwelt among us?

I can confidently say, very few.

~ Janice .... I caution you in this way, dear
friends though I am well aware that your
conviction is as firm as my own; but I would fain
protect you in advance against certain beasts of
prey in human form. If you can you should avoid
all contact with these persons, much less give
them any sort of acceptance. … After all if
everything our Lord did was only an illusion then
these chains of mine must be illusory too! Also,
to what end have I given myself up to perish by
fire or sword or savage beasts? … Yet there are
some who in their blindness still reject him-or
rather are rejected by him … So what is the point
of my standing well in the opinion of a man who
blasphemes my Lord by denying that he ever bore a
real human body? In saying that, he denies
everything else about him; and the body he
himself is bearing must be nothing but a corpse.
My pen declines to write the names of these
infidels, and I would even wish to have them
erased from my memory altogether …~ Ignatius of Antioch (Ep. Smyr. 4-5)

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Received on Thu Sep 6 13:36:28 2007