Growing Concern

There was a segment on a network morning show today that talked about a young boy who had a dehabilitating disorder that by age 6 had crippled him and left him without the ability to speak. It would also, most likely, kill him. Doctors had tried an experimental procedure where they inserted not even embryonic material, but aborted fetal cell matter into his brain. The boy is now improving.

This news is alarming on so many facets. First off, I feel terrible for the family that was in the situation that they were in. I have never known, and hopefully never will know, what it must be like to be faced with such unfortunate circumstances. I can only imagine how desperate they must have been to look for something, anything, to cure their beautiful little boy. That said, I would hope and pray that I would not be so in despair that I would permit my child to be given such a treatment.

I know the arguments. I have heard them before. And they make valid points when they are taken at face value (after all, if the abortion has already taken place, shouldn't we derive some benefit from it?). Yet my opposition goes past the surface and into something deeper - we cannot make an exception, even once, for such blatant disregard for even the youngest human beings, unless, we want that exception to become the general practice concerning, and even the intent for creating new human life. Human beings have a sinful nature and even what is meant to be good is way too easily distorted. History has shown us this time..and time..and time again. We humans learn ever so slowly!

Then there is the argument "Well, don't make it illegal - give people a choice of having the treatment or not!". Let's throw aside the obvious "But it is so morally wrong!" argument. I have yet to see proponents of choice ever stop at just choice. Oh, sure they put choice forth at first to get past the controversial nature of the issue. But in no time, the issue evolves into one of "rights" and in this I mean the "right" of a child to have what those "expert" doctors call a no brainer life saving treatment even if the parent believes that procedure to be immoral. Here in Texas, we recently had a teen taken into custody simply because the parents didn't jump on the radiation bandwagon that doctors were pushing for their daughter. It wasn't that they were even going to ignore the matter - they just wanted to try something else first! So what makes us think that these powers that be would respect a parent's moral wishes with any procedure requiring aborted or embryonic cell tissue. Those who have ever opposed a controversial vaccine in a pediatrician's office already know the answer to this question - it ain't gonna happen. So much for choice...

This is why we need to fight this now! Because once that unthreatening tiny snowball gathers momentum going down a huge hill, it is no longer tiny and easily stopped as it slams into your house - it is already an avalanche!