Timing?

Skeptical about the timing, I truly am. There are two ethical issues centered on embryos. Human embryos. These are not lab rates, captive monkeys nor death-sentenced pound dogs. If they were, PETA would voice opposition, very loudly.

From the MSNBC article regarding embryonic stem cell testing set to begin:

“In fact, the company says, the project involves stem cells that were eligible for federal funding under Bush, although no federal money was used to develop the experimental treatment or to pay for the human study.”

Why, then, wait for this announcement to follow President Obama’s tossing federal funds into the research?

Everyone, on both sides of the question, knows that there was no federal regulation limiting embryonic stem cell research. That only federal funding was withheld – going instead to umbilical stem cell or adult stem cell research.

Neither involves creating and killing human embryos.

Human embryos. Human rights. Don’t Americans holler really loud at other countries who do not pay attention to human rights? Why then do we trade one set of humans to better the lives of other humans?

And now, as the result of President Obama’s abortion support, we are exporting to the rest of the world financial aid to increase abortions in other countries.

Oh, how I wish we could export a better product than loss of life.

There was an anti-abortion e-mail making rounds some time back. A fictional woman went to her doctor and requested one because she could care only for the child she had, not the one she was carrying. She did not want her husband to know. Besides, it was her decision.

The fictional doctor suggested that she kill her little girl and carry the baby to full term. She was appalled at the suggestion, as we all should be. How could she choose to kill – either of them? Why should she be able to kill her husband’s child – either of them? Yet, our laws allow this and our federal funding encourages the death of one, but not the other.

As I’ve said before, when I think of these millions upon millions deaths, I am reminded of one verse:

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1)

The result of all the embryonic deaths America has sponsored creates a cloud of witnesses testifying to failure and death, not to the faith of the scripture reference.