“The scientist who attracted the world’s attention by cloning Dolly the sheep is taking another major step for medical research: cloning human embryos and extracting stem cells to try to unravel the mysteries of muscle-wasting illnesses such as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
“Ian Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly at Scotland’s Roslin Institute in 1996, was granted a cloning license Tuesday by British regulators to study how nerve cells go awry to cause motor-neuron diseases.
“The experiments do not involve creating cloned babies, but the license has nonetheless stirred fresh controversy over the issue and prompted abortion foes and other biological conservatives to condemn the decision.”
Thomas Wagner
The Associated Press
Fort Worth Star Telegram, Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Analysis:
Embryo: 1. a. An organism in its early stages of development, especially before it has reached a distinctively recognizable form. b. An organism at any time before full development, birth, or hatching. 2. a. The fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal following cleavage. b. In humans, the prefetal product of conception from implantation through the eighth week of development. (Dictionary.com)
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!” (Isaiah 5:20-21).
What may not be immediately clear in the preceding article is that Wilmut was given the license to experiment on humans (an embryo is a human being) as long as he does not let those humans live. In effect, we are living in a time where human experimentation is allowed as long as the human is destroyed after the experiment is over.
I realize that many do not believe an embryo to be a human being. However, the perceptions of such people do not alter the truth of the matter. From the time the egg is fertilized, and becomes an embryo, human life has begun. Science has established this without doubt.
Truly we are living in evil times, where darkness is called light and light is called darkness.
