Thursday, December 08, 2005

Stem Cells Again

Britain needs 150 embryo derived (150 people) stem cells "lines" to form a bank that would help most people. Get the percentages of people helped here.

People who wouldn't consider harvesting a liver from Jo Jo Ja Bip who rides the bus with them to work every day, won't have a problem with taking it from a "theoretical" embryo. Except, there's the little thing that it's not theoretical. The embryo is real. It is ALIVE (a dead line wouldn't work now, would it?). It has potential.

If you could save the whole world by killing an anonymous person, would you? If you could save the whole world, give them life eternal, by killing a friend, would you? If you could save the whole world by killing your child would you? How about 200 people saved? Would you do it then?

Would it matter to you if they consented or not?

Jesus Christ consented to die so that all could live. He CHOSE.

Does any person have the right to take someone else's life and give it to save another's without their consent? Does it matter that the embryo has potential to become a person, but is not yet born?

Just asking.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you could save the whole world by killing an anonymous person, would you?
Absolutely
If you could save the whole world, give them life eternal, by killing a friend, would you?
Absolutely
If you could save the whole world by killing your child would you?
Absolutely
How about 200 people saved? Would you do it then?
If they understood the sacrifices that had to be made to save their lives, then yes.

Would it matter to you if they consented or not?
No, I wouldn't ask to begin with.

Jesus Christ consented to die so that all could live. He CHOSE.

Did He really have a choice?

Does any person have the right to take someone else's life and give it to save another's without their consent?
No, not on a one on one basis like that.

Does it matter that the embryo has potential to become a person, but is not yet born?
Not really. In today's world none of our lives appear to be precious to anyone other than our immediate family. If all of us needed to give our lives to create a healthy and peacefull future for the next generation, that is what we should do. The only way the people who are living today will be important to the people living here in 100 years from now, is if we are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to provide them an opportunity to be born into a world where they can breathe the air and drink the water without living in fear of disease and war.


Scott

Anonymous said...

Sounds nice but does not sit right.

Not being the creator of life with all its intricacies of the human body, the creativity of human emotions, and the spiritual capacity our spirit possess, I would not want to take it upon myself to decide that it should not exist.

Nice to have another blogger! :-)
~vj