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Truth, Life & Politics
Paul Murano
08/02/06
 In the midst of round two of
Capitol Hill’s debate on government funding for
embryonic stem cell research, White House spokesman Tony
Snow explained President Bush’s veto by saying that
experimenting on and discarding live human embryos is
murder. When pressed a couple days later Snow
substituted that word for the phrase “taking a human
life”; basically a softer way of saying the same
thing. As a result talking heads across the cable
universe have been pointing out what they see as an
intellectual inconsistency, claiming that if Bush
believes this to be murder he should shut down all
embryonic stem cell research. Is there hypocrisy in
Bush’s remarks? There are three things to
consider - intellectual consistency, politics, and
scientific facts.
Intellectual consistency. Even if President Bush
does believe the process to be murder (which is defined
by all of western civilization until Roe v. Wade as
intentionally taking an innocent human life), he
doesn’t have power to stop privately funded research
on embryos because the courts have ruled the preborn to
have no human rights. Since abortion is legal,
experimenting on live embryos and destroying them is not
illegal. However, Bush does have the power with his
veto pen to halt more of our tax money to pay for
this.
Politics. Why then the quick change from the term
“murder” to “taking a human
life”? Perhaps one reason is that Bush
doesn’t want to call millions of Americans murderers
that have experimented on embryos trying to become
pregnant or have killed them in utero trying to become
un-pregnant; especially those who are invincibly ignorant
on these matters. It would be naïve to think the
president doesn’t care about Republican victories in
the fall, and offending people (even if by the truth)
tends to make them lash out against the messenger.
Unfortunately to many with ill-formed consciences, legal
means moral.
Facts. The argument, even among pro-lifers, is that
since many embryos from fertility clinics are being
discarded, why not use them for the betterment of
humanity? First, one can never experiment on and/or
kill one human being for the benefit of another.
Secondly, by using these live embryos you contribute to
the contemporary societal machine called the culture of
death; and by feeding this machine you contribute to its
growth and are partly responsible for its
existence. It’s similar to the spurious claim
that it would have been okay to experiment on live Jews
in Nazi concentration camps because, after all, it was
legal and they were going to die anyway. Such use
of live human embryos is not only gravely unethical in
itself, but creates more of a demand and more of a
rationale for lethal practices to continue on the
preborn.
The reason there’s even a debate is because many
still do not recognize preborn human beings as human
beings; or they do but don’t care. Let’s
ignore the latter for now because pure evil doesn’t
follow reason. If one strips away all religious and
philosophical arguments we are left with science.
Scientific fact is something all human beings of right
mind can agree on. Science is limited to only one
certain fact regarding this issue: Every human individual
- you, me, and everyone else that has ever lived - begins
at conception.
Every human organism begins their existence and growth at
conception, reaches full maturity approximately 25 years
later, and lives on average around 80 years after
conception. Placing any arbitrary point in the
human lifecycle between conception and natural death
would be one’s own opinion based on guesses,
conjecture and belief, not fact. And history has
shown us that using the term “not fully human”
was disastrous for Jews, slaves, and native Americans; as
it is now with humans in their embryonic and fetal
stages. The number of preborn humans in the U.S.
that will die today from a deliberate lethal act of
another is around 5000. The same for tomorrow, and
the next day…
In the context of an era focused on terrorism, we must
declare that national security begins in the womb.
Each day abortion, in vitro technologies, and embryonic
stem cell research kill far more human beings than 9-11
did. By far the most dangerous place to live today
is one’s mother’s womb. The real
inconsistency and horror is that many of those who have
been born ignore this fact and forget where they came
from. Ultimately, history will judge us primarily not on
how we fought the terrorism of radical Islam, but on how
we fought the terrorism of radical secular
humanism. The former is homicide, the latter
suicide. As history has shown us, feeding the
culture of death will ensure our demise either way.
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