Letter to the Editor Comments regarding Stem Cell Issue

[jediliz]

This really angers me…I have to take a deep breath so I don’t need to go to confession again…

Anyway…

Yesterday, my local newspaper ran a letter to the Editor regarding Stem Cells.

I commented as “Former Human Embryo” and I couldn’t believe the nonsense from other people who wrote comments as well

Read them here:

journalstar.com/articles/2006/12/06/opinion/letters/doc4574b9852c725647306706.txt

Someone had the nerve to not only assume I am MALE but that I was created in a petri dish. And called my mother’s womb an “incubator”.

How sad that many people have such a disrespect for human life that they would keep saying “they’ll be destroyed anyway” for the whatever # of tiny human beings that are discarded year after year.

If anyone cares to comment, maybe you could back me up?

I don’t know if commenting will be closed for awhile - try to comment if you want to ASAP. They have to moderate comments so not everyone’s might get posted.

(Even if you just read what the commentors posted, that would be great)

 

[Regi]

I live in Lincoln, too. I saw some of the posts you mention - not pretty.

What parish are you in?

 

[dafalax]

Boy, it’s hard not to get angry reading some of those ignorant posts, especially when they set up straw men arguments, like saying that we’re also the ones who don’t want trashy women having too many babies. Were they kidding? We’re Catholic! We want everyone to have as many babies as possible! We don’t need 400,000 women to take those frozen embryos into their wombs, we need one. I don’t see any other volunteers, so pass 'em my way.
Anyhoo, i really hate that they accuse us of ignoring science when they themselves disregard a very basic scientific principle to justify killing babies. To put it simply, only one thing in the world has a full set of human dna, and that is a human. It doesn’t matter if it only has two cells, it’s a human. Genus homo, species sapiens. There is no separate animal called “fetus”. Sperm and ova can correctly be called “potential humans”, but once the ovum is fertilized, it is a human being that begins rapid development.
We do have to realize, though, that by not raising more of an outcry over in vitro fertilization, we did sort of let this happen. I wasn’t even Catholic then. What’s your excuse?