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- Sunday, February 28, 1993
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- CURES FROM THE WOMB
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- A Newsweek article this past month focused on fetal tissue
- research. According to scientists, fetal tissue has become the
- new hope of incurable deceases such as Parkinson's Disease,
- juvenile diabetes, Huntington's Disease, and Hurler's Syndrome.
- There are also at least 155 genetic disorders that could be
- corrected before birth with fetal tissue.
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- Is this good news or bad? Can we as Christians encourage such
- research or condemn it? Nowhere in Scripture does God forbid the
- transplanting of organs from one person to another. For example,
- a person dies and his eyes and other internal organs (kidneys,
- liver, pancreas, etc.) are donated to a person in need.
- Therefore the research and transplants themselves are not
- unscriptural.
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- The problem arises when the scientists use the fetal tissue of
- intentionally aborted babies. What a market! 1.6 million babies'
- bodies! Now that President Clinton has rescinded the ban on
- spending federal funds for the transplantation of tissue from
- aborted fetuses into humans, the field is wide open. Prior to
- this, doctors could only "legally" use babies who died from
- miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. Fetal transplantation has
- now become a million dollar industry.
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- Question now arise, according to the Newsweek article. Should
- fetuses be sold, like blood, or imported from poorer countries?
- Should society allow the stockpiling of spare fetal parts for
- cosmetic purposes? Will the fetal transplantation industry
- influence more women to choose abortion in order to donate their
- fetuses for a "good cause?" Will someone with an ailing loved one
- get pregnant and be allowed to abort their baby for fetal
- transplantation? Will we have a harvesting of fetuses?
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- Science proceeds further and further into its genetic immorality.
- Where will it all stop? As Bible-believing Christians we must
- condemn all fetal transplantation from "induced abortions." To
- kill an unborn baby in order to try to help a diseased person is
- not scriptural. To harvest fetuses through abortions for
- transplantation use is abhorrent! Yet it is legal. Twenty years
- ago the Supreme Court, in legalizing abortion, ruled that the
- fetus has no constitutional right to protection by the law.
- Legally, the fetus is now a nothing. And yet the fetus is clearly
- a growing human being. A human nothing? In essence our government
- is saying a living fetus in the womb is worth nothing, but an
- aborted, "killed" fetus is very valuable.
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- May God save us all!
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- Mark Bernthal
- 3460 Crestmont Drive
- Saginaw MI 48603
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