Not Science Fiction: Stem Cell Farming in the Ukraine

The Drudge Report recently highlighted a shocking story from the BBC that centered on "disturbing video footage" of "dismembered tiny bodies." "Healthy new-born babies" in the Ukraine, "the self-styled stem cell capital of the world," have allegedly been killed "to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells."..., Murdered to Order, Ryan T. Anderson, The Weekly Standard

Just when you'd had enough of 2006, the old year brings another sickness to light, the harvesting in the Ukraine of purchased, stolen, or aborted infants to provide stem cell resources for researchers. Amazing but true -- among the strongest supporters, yes, supporters, of this kind of thing are pro-abortion organizations.

stem cell research can not appeal to any of these claims of women's welfare, privacy, or "the right to choose." Though the case of embryonic stem cells doesn't pose a direct competition of rights or interests--unborn embryos do not pose a threat to anyone--public arguments were made about competing interests of patients: "You pro-lifers are favoring embryos over Parkinson's victims." When these arguments prove ineffective, defenders of embryo-destructive research turn to a utilitarian one: embryos can be put to better use as raw material for biomedical research...."Murdered to Order," continued....

And it's happening here, not just in the Ukraine.

'My suspicions and sense of urgency have been heightened by the fact that my home state of New Jersey has passed a bill that specifically authorizes and encourages human cloning for, among other purposes, the harvesting of 'cadaveric fetal tissue.' A 'cadaver,' of course, is a dead body. The bodies in question are those of fetuses created by cloning specifically to be gestated and killed as sources of tissues and organs. What the bill envisages and promotes, in other words, is fetus farming.' Robert P. George, Princeton Philopher, cited in "Murdered to Order"

The late John Paul II lamented often that in an increasingly post-Christian Europe and America that what had been considered primary human values for thousands of years, especially compassion and the sanctity of life, were now held as sentimental affects by a majority of the adult population. It appears that he was right, that people without belief in anything beyond this life will murder for any hope of extending that life, and any hope of avoiding inconvenient impositions on their manner of living.

Luther