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Marc_Anthony
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I thought you’d all like to see this.
This is a quote from Professor of Reproductive medicine Allison Murdoch. It’s from 2005.
ALISON MURDOCH
Professor of reproductive medicine
“I believe that life does not begin at conception, but I have no proof. I am an atheist and I believe in the sanctity of life but not that there is a higher spirit up there creating it. I don’t think there is a magic moment when life begins. I favour a gradualist approach. Once a baby is born, it is an individual. But there’s a time before that when it is still part of the woman who is carrying it. At the very early stages of pregnancy, she has the right to make decisions about it. As the pregnancy develops, the growing infant acquires its independent rights.
While I respect the value of a fertilised egg because it has the capacity to create a baby, I do not look on it in the same way that I would regard a child. Life should be respected differently at different stages. A fertilised egg is not a life; it is a potential life. I can’t prove this, but my work is based on it. If I felt that every fertilised egg that I created for IVF was an individual person, I couldn’t do my job. We create hundreds of embryos every week; eight to ten for each person, only ever using two.”
There you have it; an atheist Professor of reproductive medicine agrees that there is no proof that she is not killing somebody. Yet she does it anyway.
Sickening.
timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article782065.ece
This is a quote from Professor of Reproductive medicine Allison Murdoch. It’s from 2005.
ALISON MURDOCH
Professor of reproductive medicine
“I believe that life does not begin at conception, but I have no proof. I am an atheist and I believe in the sanctity of life but not that there is a higher spirit up there creating it. I don’t think there is a magic moment when life begins. I favour a gradualist approach. Once a baby is born, it is an individual. But there’s a time before that when it is still part of the woman who is carrying it. At the very early stages of pregnancy, she has the right to make decisions about it. As the pregnancy develops, the growing infant acquires its independent rights.
While I respect the value of a fertilised egg because it has the capacity to create a baby, I do not look on it in the same way that I would regard a child. Life should be respected differently at different stages. A fertilised egg is not a life; it is a potential life. I can’t prove this, but my work is based on it. If I felt that every fertilised egg that I created for IVF was an individual person, I couldn’t do my job. We create hundreds of embryos every week; eight to ten for each person, only ever using two.”
There you have it; an atheist Professor of reproductive medicine agrees that there is no proof that she is not killing somebody. Yet she does it anyway.
Sickening.
timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article782065.ece