The Slippery Slope Keeps Getting Slipperier

CAUTION: This article will turn your stomach. That having been said, I just came across an Article written by Chuck Colson for BreakPoint. Entitled A Gruesome Harvest : Aborted Fetuses and Their Organs it looks at the latest in the direction the "culture of death is taking us, harvesting parts from aborted fetuses. You read that right, harvesting parts from those murdered by abortion. The logic, we might as well use them rather than waste them.

Chuck Colson rightly calls what is going on an "ethical wasteland". I have selected a few quotes & added my comments, please follow the link for the entire article.

"As reported in the UK’s Daily Mail, Sir Richard, (Oxford University stem-cell expert Sir Richard Gardner) an advisor to Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority sees this ghastly practice as a potential solution to the shortage of donated organs-and to what we are learning about the ineffectiveness of embryonic stem cells. Did you get what he said about embryonic cells? I'll comment in a moment.

While advocates of using embryonic stem cells have long hailed them as the El Dorado of disease prevention, they’re not. Sir Richard calls the creation of fully functioning organs from embryonic stem cells 'remote.'” Wait a minute, isn't this exactly the opposite of what Obama claimed when he lifted the limits on the use of embryonic stem cells? I suspect Sir Richard will come under some attack for admitting the truth, that embryonic stem cells don't work as their proponants claim. But, sadly, he has also redeamed himself by this alternative proposal.

"King’s College professor Stuart Campbell did not object. Speaking of the many babies aborted late in term, he said, 'If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs.' He added, 'I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus.'” Utilitarianism at its worst, the end justifies the means. Sadly way too many people will buy into this out of pure selfishness.

& it keeps getting worse: "Here in the United States, bioethicist Jacob Appel, writing on the subject in the Huffington Post, states, 'The first striking feature of fetal organs is that their supply...is unlimited...pregnant women who provide fetal kidneys could do so repeatedly.'” I can imagine him drooling at the prospect. Meanwhile, where is the feminist outrage at his making women into body parts factories?

I hope you are sitting down, this man's absolute lack of any ethical morality is about to be seen. "Appel grants that abortions would likely rise as a result, Is he saying that women would intentionally get pregnant so they could murder those children for money? YES, as you will see in a moment. In a way, this is a logical end to the idea that woman have the right to chose. Now they can chose to become parts factories is what this guty is saying. but even so, he believes we have 'a moral duty' to legalize the marketing of fetal organs. Appel would fit in perectly with Mengele & his ethos. Immoral is more like it How nice, too, he says, that poor women could benefit by selling the organs of their aborted children." 1st of all, like I said, where is the feminist outrage at this? Then there is the whole condescending attitude towards the poor he shows by this. This man is sick, sick, sick.

After looking at where things could go, Chuck Colson gives us a much needed challenge & warning that we would do well to heed: "All of this amplifies the need for Christians to boldly and steadfastly defend the sanctity and inviolability of human life from conception through natural death.
Because as medical technology advances and ethical standards crumble, the stakes only grow higher."