Sunday, February 28, 1993

CURES FROM THE WOMB

 

A Newsweek article this past month focused on fetal tissue

research. According to scientists, fetal tissue has become the

new hope of incurable deceases such as Parkinson's Disease,

juvenile diabetes, Huntington's Disease, and Hurler's Syndrome.

There are also at least 155 genetic disorders that could be

corrected before birth with fetal tissue.

Is this good news or bad? Can we as Christians encourage such

research or condemn it? Nowhere in Scripture does God forbid the

transplanting of organs from one person to another. For example,

a person dies and his eyes and other internal organs (kidneys,

liver, pancreas, etc.) are donated to a person in need.

Therefore the research and transplants themselves are not

unscriptural.

The problem arises when the scientists use the fetal tissue of

intentionally aborted babies. What a market! 1.6 million babies'

bodies! Now that President Clinton has rescinded the ban on

spending federal funds for the transplantation of tissue from

aborted fetuses into humans, the field is wide open. Prior to

this, doctors could only "legally" use babies who died from

miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. Fetal transplantation has

now become a million dollar industry.

Question now arise, according to the Newsweek article. Should

fetuses be sold, like blood, or imported from poorer countries?

Should society allow the stockpiling of spare fetal parts for

cosmetic purposes? Will the fetal transplantation industry

influence more women to choose abortion in order to donate their

fetuses for a "good cause?" Will someone with an ailing loved one

get pregnant and be allowed to abort their baby for fetal

transplantation? Will we have a harvesting of fetuses?

Science proceeds further and further into its genetic immorality.

Where will it all stop? As Bible-believing Christians we must

condemn all fetal transplantation from "induced abortions." To

kill an unborn baby in order to try to help a diseased person is

not scriptural. To harvest fetuses through abortions for

transplantation use is abhorrent! Yet it is legal. Twenty years

ago the Supreme Court, in legalizing abortion, ruled that the

fetus has no constitutional right to protection by the law.

Legally, the fetus is now a nothing. And yet the fetus is clearly

a growing human being. A human nothing? In essence our government

is saying a living fetus in the womb is worth nothing, but an

aborted, "killed" fetus is very valuable.

May God save us all!

 

Mark Bernthal

3460 Crestmont Drive

Saginaw MI 48603

 

 

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