Brave New World?
November 11th, 2007 at 12:06 pm . by nukeFrom News.com.au
PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create “spare-part babies” under controversial laws published yesterday.
The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating “saviour siblings” who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukemia.
Experts said that one day they could create a “designer baby” with kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure.
More immediately, saviour siblings could give umbilical cord blood or bone marrow to family members in the hope of treating conditions such as sickle cell anaemia.
The Government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated in British Parliament and is expected to become law in 2009.
This is happening across the pond, but in light of the recent stem cell debate in this country, the issue of “sanctity of life” cannot be ignored any longer. Although it hasn’t gotten much play in the States, a quick search of the term “saviour siblings” reveals a trove of articles and position papers on both sides of the scientific and ethical divide.
I think it is interesting to see how the press frames the issue in the headline….
“Parents win right to grow babies for ’spare parts’”
Similar in tone and fervor to the pro-abortion argument, proponents attempt to frame the issue in terms of parental “rights”, and that cloned humanity is not humanity at all, but rather “spare parts.” In their ‘Brave New World,’ cloned humanity becomes a lesser race of life, a new species, in fact, no different than laboratory rats or research monkeys. Except, in this case, there is no PETA to protest the enslavement of this new lesser race of humanity.
This is truly an abomination. It is revolting. It must not stand.
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Slippery slope. Once you make fetuses disposable waste material, where does it end? Involuntary organ donors–why not? And if you can conceive babies genetically tailored for donor material for existing children, how long until they’ll be required to donate to an ailing parent?
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Well, when so many are convinced there is no God, then they believe it is their duty to fill the void, and play the role.
Sick bastids!
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I think the scary part is that they can claim that all they’re doing is working for the betterment of man-kind. The scariest thing is that they are, indeed, playing God. Theres no way of knowing what will happen next.