Reconciling conscience - to support or not to support

[ble]

Today, I sent a letter to a friend at work refusing to be a photographer for a fundraiser she strongly believes in and volunteers for full time. It’s the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, a group that support and use embryonic stem cells for research.

I thought about myself being a voice for those life that is cut short through the embryonic stem cell research. But I feel she thinks I’m insensitive to the children who affected by it, especially when the research is using “excess” embryos that will be destroyed anyway. It seems like at my company, everyone is for the research and even the company sponsors the group every year.

Has this happen to you? What action did you take?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Philothea_2.0]

My friends and family all think I’m nuts because I won’t help them out with their Cancer Society fundraisers and other stuff like that – for same exact reasoning as you. And my family has a lot of cancer survivors (and some victims) among our own ranks and those of our friends, so it’s not like the disease hasn’t affected me personally. But I won’t knowingly donate or support a cause that believes it’s okay to experiment on and sacrifice innocent life to make the rest of our lives better and longer.

It’s the same reason my son hasn’t had his MMR, the Chicken Pox shot and a few others. I won’t knowingly choose to benefit from the murder of innocents.

Anyway, I just wanted you to know you’re not alone, and I obviously think it’s a stand worth taking – it bothers people a lot, so I figure it has to get them thinking …

 

[po18guy]

Today, I sent a letter to a friend at work refusing to be a photographer for a fundraiser she strongly believes in and volunteers for full time. It’s the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, a group that support and use embryonic stem cells for research.

I thought about myself being a voice for those life that is cut short through the embryonic stem cell research. But I feel she thinks I’m insensitive to the children who affected by it, especially when the research is using “excess” embryos that will be destroyed anyway. It seems like at my company, everyone is for the research and even the company sponsors the group every year.

Has this happen to you? What action did you take?

Thanks,
Ben

Thanks for standing up! Do a little google research and let her know that ADULT stem cells show all of the promise. Why kill one human to try to benefit another? First, she will have to seize upon the idea of the embryo as a human. Let her know that Christ, Einstein and Martin Luther King were once embryos. Should one of them have been destroyed because a child was ill? Do not apologize for having done nothing wrong.

The evil one accomplishes his works by tacking the name “kids” or “childhood” or “cure” onto endeavors that always seem to have a moral flaw hidden somewhere.

Christ’s peace.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Today, I sent a letter to a friend at work refusing to be a photographer for a fundraiser she strongly believes in and volunteers for full time. It’s the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, a group that support and use embryonic stem cells for research.

I thought about myself being a voice for those life that is cut short through the embryonic stem cell research. But I feel she thinks I’m insensitive to the children who affected by it, especially when the research is using “excess” embryos that will be destroyed anyway. It seems like at my company, everyone is for the research and even the company sponsors the group every year.

Has this happen to you? What action did you take?

Thanks,
Ben

I have made such decisions on other issues and feel that not participating is the correct answer. Always clearly letting the people know why.