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6th August 2008

GOOD  NEWS!
LifeNews.com April 21st. 2008   Washington D.C.

Adult Stem Cells are being used in treating wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.  Pro-life advocates have long supported the use of adult stem cells over embryonic stem cells in research because no human life is destroyed in obtaining the cells.  Now, new reports show wounded soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan are helped by the ethical stem cells. Showing how far adult stem cells have come in a very short time, wounded soldiers are being treated with their own stem cells to help treat wounds involving bones.  According to ABC News, the Bush administration has spent $85 million to fund the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Boston Medical Centre. Dr. Thomas Einhorn, the chairman of orthopaedic surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine, has used adult stem cells to repair a patient’s hip after conventional surgeries failed.   Noted bio-ethics watchdog Wesley Smith says he’s not surprised by the news. “Illustrating how the hype  overcame reality, the story’s author felt the need to say that the stem cells did not come from embryos,” he said.  But as pro-life advocates know - “no human applications have yet come from human embryonic stem cells.”  Smith added: “It will take much time for this procedure to become available in the civilian sector. The good news just keeps coming!

MY LIVING WILL

Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some fancy machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”

She got up, unplugged the Computer, and threw out my wine.

She’s such a bitch……
 

Dave’s  Digest

CHIMERAS  or  HYBRIDS?

Take your pick!  It is a composite of Evil. Do you remember the first time you heard about the newest in automobiles?  They are called ‘hybrids’, and the idea behind them is that they run on a combination of two or more sources of energy. Most often we find the combination of an electric engine and a gas powered engine. The idea is that the composite of the two produces a more fuel-efficient vehicle.

But there is another type of hybrid in the news that does not increase fuel efficiency, but is rather more macabre. Recently, researchers at Newcastle University in Britain, created what they called human-animal hybrid embryo. I have to point out, immediately , that the research has not been published to date, nor has it been verified, but it is disquieting.  It did appear in the newspapers on April 1st.

It is reported that the embryos were created by injecting DNA taken from human skin cells, into eggs derived from cow ovaries – a composite.  It is further claimed that nearly all of the genetic material from the cow eggs had been stripped away prior to injecting the human DNA. What is perhaps most interesting to me about the announcement, is that it would seem scientific researchers are moving away from discussing such “creations” as  “chimeras” and towards the more politically correct word, ‘hybrid’.

Well, we all know a chimera as a “fire-breathing she monster in Greek mythology, having a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail””  -- once again, a composite. It would seem that science has moved away from one word ‘chimera’ and begun using a more acceptable word – ‘hybrid’.  Be that as it may, what is now being researched, toyed with and otherwise proposed is despicable. It is a grotesque use of what was once a noble endeavour – scientific research.

As Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland wrote in a recent newspaper article, “I think it is time we deployed a great deal more rigour when listening to the hype-filled claims of those who experiment upon and destroy human life at its most defenceless.”

The Cardinal went on to make a valid point that France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Australia have all banned the grotesque procedures that the British seek to legalize. Could it be that the citizens and politicians of those countries care nothing for the chronically ill among them?  Or could it be that we are wrong and these democracies see no reason to attack the sanctity and dignity of human life when many alternatives exist?

Cardinal O’Brien has a scientific background and can be said to speak with authority, but it seems to me that common sense should be guiding all of us to the same conclusion.  That conclusion is, that a human being mixed in with a bovine creature  -- a composite – can only result in ethical chaos of the worst kind.

Let us hope that those in decision-making positions in Britain and in America are listening, reflecting and deciding in favour of respect for human dignity and against “hybrid” creations that are not of the automotive kind.

By  Judie Brown