Why Destroy Life? We Have Better Alternatives

Speaking as an obvious Stem Cell, Opie, you have bio-cred, but that's about it. We need brain cells for these discussions.

I mean, you know, Monsignor. I remember the Church's stance of the Seventies on this then-new 'In vitro fertilization,' ..dead-set against it, ...frankly, I tend to feel there's more than enough unwanted children, never mind human population in the world to begin with, but, the *way* it was gone about, ...the way the Church has always strung this along....

The notion that natural fertilization, even if medically-tremendously-unlikely, is a sign of the all-important one God's *favor.*

Leaving infertile people or those who suffer miscarriages to feel, of course, 'disfavored,' ...to blame queers as 'inferior' based on the false perception we can't or don't necessarily *have* kids, ....and most of all to keep supplicating.

And, in desperation, to resort to expensive treatments to personally-breed, to overcome the shame and stigma and constant attacks on their idea of 'value' in the mind of those who speak for a notion of a very severe and implacable 'judge.'

All this happens, and you dare not, apparently, excoriate those who seek fertility treatments, (Italy, in particular, has a major problem with that) ...but rather decide it's due observance to hold back vital health care possibilities in the name of the same 'abstraction,' when I *know* you aren't dumb enough to think these donated blastocysts are going to grow into human beings.

Give us a break.

As for the blurb on this article, ....no, we don't have better alternatives. Scientists have too much trouble with funding as it *is* to randomly decide to make life hard on themselves and needed research just to cheese you off, Vicar.

"I don't need faith to recognize the humanity of the embryos in question."

No, I don't imagine faith has much to do with thinking being a blastocyst that'll get flushed anyway if not donated to some useful purpose is the defining characteristic of the human experience.

Or that that's when eternal souls with but one chance at life are 'begat.' And that it's some horrible tragedy for what happens almost fifty percent of the time naturally: that such clumps of cells don't implant... somehow ...what, damns a soul to Limbo for eternity?

No, you're right. 'Faith' doesn't say that.

Something else says that.

Whatever it is, it blinds you to the politically-inconvenient-for-a-conservative-fact that people don't spend two billion a year on in vitro fertilization cause their religious culture only values breeders, only to flush frozen blastocysts before they're done having puppies.