The die has been cast by the elected President and Congress has been given the green light to use federal funds for experimentation that requires the destruction of human embryos. Following will be therapeutic cloning of human life in order to extract human tissue that won’t be rejected by the host.
Life or death of a human embryo is no longer a personal decision between a woman and her doctor or a couple using IVF to bear children. Scientists if asked will admit that it is fresh human eggs that make the best medium for their experiments and there are not enough available. Women will be exploited.
The majority of Americans have voiced their approval of this science and those against it will have to watch what is reaped with this decision. I think that many people will be surprised how it crosses party lines and conservative or liberal leanings. Others will be surprised at how it crosses spiritual belief and even choice and right to life supporters.
We have already seen the signs for years of the attempt to dehumanize these human embryos by lumping them with the generic term of zygote or just bundle of cells destined for some trash can or medical waste dump. We are also supposed believe that this science will be conducted in the most ethical way, when the ethics of it from the very beginning are in question.
For me Monday was a day of mourning.
