Souls on Ice
Friday June 30, 2006
An incredible story about the moral confusion and emotional anxiety over the vast population of frozen human embryos -- about half a million -- piling up in fertility clinics across America. Excerpt:But the impact of the embryo is also taking...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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" The glut s very existence illuminates how the newest reproductive technologies are complicating questions about life;"
No, it *isn't.*
The only complication comes from the medieval 'Every Sperm Is Sacred' idea.
Not *life.*
Life. Is experience.
No more, no less.
Stem cells are *just cells.* That's all.
Studying them does *not* mean any fewer Christians will have abortions.
It's just a question of if we learn what we can, or if we allow people who say 'Suffering is good' to say we may not.>
I'm pleasantly amazed, Rod. When I got my MoJo this week, I wondered if anyone at B-Net would take notice of this fascinating and enlightening series of articles.
Way to go for bringing it to light here.>
Rome is thinking and talking with its "customary clarity" on this stuff? Rod, puh-leeze. If Rome were thinking and talking with any clarity on "life" issues, it would 1)not tolerate JPII's full-blown intellectual and moral revisionism concerning capital punishment, a revisionism that contradicts both Scripture and Tradition 2)make the sexual molestation of children and teenagers by clergy an offense that would automatcially excommunicate the perpetrator 3)make the episcopal enabling of such offenses an act that would automatcially excommunicate the bishop in question.>
Trujillo is grandstanding for personal attention, just like Martino, Poupard, Etchegaray and other Vatican cardinals. Any moral insight he might have is purely coincidental, at best.>
My biggest concerns are:
When there is a functioning heart and when the brain is developed, morally.
The difficulty of handling crisis scenarios for medical and other professionals.
The manner of life we should seek in our country, politically.
It seems to me the last two would present the biggest problem with re-introducing laws against abortion, towards moderation, etc.>
When there is a functioning heart and when the brain is developed, morally.
By that token, GWB (and most of the administration) sounds like an acceptable candidate for abortion.
No heart, no moral function in the brain...
Yep - where's my vaccuum?>
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