Killing as compassion
Posted: October 26, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Tom Flannery
A new political TV ad featuring actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is causing waves.
In it, Fox asks Missouri voters to support Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill in her bid to unseat Sen. Jim Talent, citing Talent's opposition to embryonic stem cell research.
Well, actually Fox leaves out the whole embryonic part, as proponents of this research often do. That way they don't have to address the complicated moral issues involved here and instead pretend that such issues simply don't exist.
They want to frame the debate exclusively around the cures they claim that embryonic stem cell research will yield in the future for Parkinson's, spinal injuries like those suffered by the late Christopher Reeve, and a host of other conditions. The last thing they want to talk about, unless pressed to do so, is the destruction of human embryos that's at the heart of the national controversy surrounding this research.
"What you do in Missouri matters to millions of Americans – Americans like me," Fox says in the new TV ad. The implication is clear – Sen. Talent and other pro-life politicians are callously standing in the way of cures for myriad diseases affecting millions of Americans.
Furthermore, the sight of Fox shaking severely from his Parkinson's tremors in the ad is specifically designed to pull at our heartstrings and prod our collective compassion. It's a purely emotional appeal, as opposed to a moral or intellectual one. But just how compassionate is it to destroy human embryos for promises of potential cures somewhere down the road?
President Bush answered that question correctly when he used his veto pen for the first time in his presidency earlier this year and vetoed a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In so doing, he threw a much-needed roadblock into our nation's continuing spiral down the slippery slope into abject barbarism, or our "slouching towards Gomorrah" as Judge Bork calls it.
The culture of death created by liberals in this country has produced a sinister death cult, a blood lust for the slaughter of the innocents and the most vulnerable among us – from unborn babies, even those who are partially born when they're gruesomely exterminated, to the elderly and infirm, and now to human embryos.
Liberals don't see this slippery slope because they don't see any moral implications whatsoever in the cold-blooded murder of unborn babies, brain-injured women and others who either can't speak in their own defense or can be convinced that they'd be better off dead.
If liberals will march in the streets, as they do, to defend the practice of driving needles into the skulls of partially born babies and sucking their brains out, what chance does a human embryo have with them?
Make no mistake – these people are absolutely obsessed with death. They have legalized the killing of the unborn in complete contradiction of our Declaration of Independence, which guarantees all persons the right to life – and scientific advances have proven that unborn children are persons. They are pushing for euthanasia and assisted suicide and human cloning at every turn. They have even introduced death education into the government schools over the past generation, with teachers assigning students such morbid tasks as composing suicide notes and writing their own obituaries, and taking them on tours of funeral homes.
And now it's happening all over again with embryonic stem cell research. This time, they're telling us about all the diseases this research is bound to produce cures for in the coming years. What they don't tell us – in fact, what they seem intent on suppressing from the public – is that this research has produced absolutely nothing since it began about 50 years ago. It's been a complete bust.
During that same period, there has been remarkable – one might even say miraculous – progress made in the use of adult stem cells, which don't require the extermination of human life. Yet liberals continue clamoring for embryonic stem cell research and the destruction of human embryos for false promises of myriad cures. Indeed, the more impressive results that adult stem cells yield (and they're currently being used to treat dozens of diseases), the more the liberals demand further forays into human embryo experimentation.
Not that it's any surprise given their worldview. As this ongoing national debate establishes, their arguments have nothing to do with science or potential medical advances. That's just the cover they use, as it was for their ghoulish embrace of fetal-tissue research, when they reasoned: "Well, we're killing the babies anyway, so why not experiment on their tissue?"
Because of arguments like these, God's precious gift of life has been drastically devalued by modern society, and embryonic stem cell research only takes us further down that road. How much lower can we sink into this moral abyss?
For liberals, the answer is as far as we have to until they can start showing some beneficial use of aborted babies' flesh or harvested human embryos, to give them the ethical justification they've sought all along (but never found, nor ever will) for their various death industries.
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil," God warns us in His Word (Isaiah 5:20), yet liberals have been doing just that for decades.
And now they're trying to do it once again with embryonic stem cell research, using the tragic conditions of celebrities like Fox and Reeve as part of their shameless campaign.
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