Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:13:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Xanno Moidecar <[email protected]>
I look at my lovely family and I know that if any one of them needed it, I would have absolutely no hesitation in taking recourse to any means whatsoever, to secure their wellbeing. Mario observes: >From what I have read, securing the well being of your family members through >embryonic stem cell research is hardly imminent. Besides, embryonic stem >cells are available through other means like umbilical cord blood. If I am >wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me. However, the dilemma about what to do about the growing number of unused embryos does not seem to have any logical solution for those of us who know that the human life begins at conception. Xanno writes: I feel the solution suggested by you and Mario may be the best in these circumstances. Mario responds: Based on his comments, we can see that Mervyn is against abortions. However, Mervyn seems to have accepted the sophistry by some medical professionals he has questioned that the ONLY alternative to abortion is some old lady hanging around a back alley with a coat-hanger waiting to conduct abortions on demand. I believe, if you probe a little deeper you would find that these particular medical professionals have some vested interest in performing abortions. I say this based on the bogus alternative they have mentioned, instead of the far more logical alternatives of counseling and adoption by one of the numerous Catholic or Protestant organizations who will help a woman who finds herself in these trying and traumatic circumstances. If there are no such organizations in Canada, there are several in the US, where Canadians who want to prolong their lives already know they can come for immediate medical tests and procedures that have long waiting lists in Canada. Mervyn counsels against watching videos of abortions, the most effective way to show someone who thinks the fetus is a tissue mass that they are tearing an actual human being limb from limb. I saw a Director of Planned Parenthood in the US interviewed on TV recently after she left Planned Parenthood to speak out against abortions on demand, and her epiphany was as a result of watching an ultrasound of an abortion being performed. The view that abortion is not murder comes from the scientists and secular and legal systems defining a time frame prior to which a fetus is not considered by them to be a human being. Legally, abortion is not murder at least in the early stages in most civilized countries, but in many places until it is born alive. Mervyn agrees that many abortions can be prevented if the young woman is helped financially. However, he seems to imply that it is the government that should be doing so when he says, "However, most tax payers baulk at the idea when the realize that they will have to pay more taxes." This may be the prevailing view in socialist-oriented Canada, but in the US the organizations that help women avoid abortion are private and religious organizations, using funds donated by private individuals. In Canada Mother Theresa's Missionaries used to have a facility in Toronto but had to close it because of a lack of private donations. They do have several facilities in the US, and along with Catholic Charities should be the first stop for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.
