Harvard is making an ethically tragic mistake by joining with Children’s Hospital Boston to clone human embryos. But then again, why should amoral Harvard care?
I should know. When a student at Harvard Divinity School, faculty did not care about discarding divine revelation for their own rewriting of Scripture. That dates way back. Opportunism for political correctness counts most at Harvard in every department. The standard has nothing to do with biblical ethics. It has to do with being first.
Therefore, when AgapePress’ Mary Rettig and Jenni Parker report that scientists at Harvard Stem Cell Institute along with the hospital informed media that they are working on embryonic cloning "to generate stem cell lines for disease treatment," they meant it. And they mean to go further, if possible. See Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
"The Harvard Gazette reports that after more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, HSCI and Children's Hospital have been cleared to begin experiments using somatic cell nuclear transfer to create disease-specific stem cell lines in the hope of developing treatments for a wide range of afflictions that are presently incurable."It does not matter that we mortals were once all embryos. We therefore are fortunate in that we escaped those scientists’ hands. But the embryos now being toyed with are at the scientists’ mercy, which is zero on the chart of 100.
So goes the fear factor increase of all moralists at the close of the Church Age. More and more the mortal means nothing. Experimenting "on the edge" means everything. At Harvard, of course, that is particularly the case. First. First in anything, everything.
That is why Harvard made it known several months ago that it going to plunge more than ever into evolutionary specifics in order to come up with the real facts. Hubris at its height with that news release. Nevertheless, remember we are talking about Harvard here.
"Christian physician Dr. David Stevens, who heads the CMDA, says it is a shame that news of this announcement has escaped widespread media attention and has made barely a ripple in the headlines. Human lives are being extinguished, he points out; and moreover, this type of research is developing human embryos for the sole purpose of experimentation.
"’There are attempts under way to clone human beings,’ Stevens explains, ‘not only using so-called leftover embryos from IVF clinics, but also to create embryos themselves that model disease states.’
"In other words, the CMDA spokesman says, scientists are attempting, for instance, to ‘clone somebody with diabetes, somebody with sickle cell disease, and then study that human being as it develops, trying to understand that process and -- of course -- killing it after so many days of development.’"
As with the womb baby killers in Planned Parenthood and like killeries, so with Harvard. "Murder" is not murder when it is at Harvard, especially in the hands of Harvard scientists. Obviously, the same goes for Children’s Hospital Boston.
"It is a shame, Stevens says. While ESCR advocates tout the importance of expanding exploration of the dubious hopes held out by embryonic stem cells in the distant future, he asserts, adult stem cells have repeatedly proven their promise in clinical settings, where their successful use in treating several diseases is already well documented."
Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.