Friday July 21, 2006
If Embryos are Human then Fertility Clinics are Death Camps: Pro-abortion Columnist
By John Jalsevac
TORONTO,
ON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion columnist writing
for the National Post has followed the logic of pro-life
arguments about the evils of embryonic stem cell research and concluded that, if
true, then artificial reproduction techniques must also be considered
murderous on the scale of genocide.
“In short, if embryos are human beings with full human rights,
fertility clinics are death camps—with a side order of cold-blooded
eugenics,” writes Michael Kinsley in an article entitled Where’s the Logic? “No
one who truly believes in the humanity of embryos could possibly think
otherwise.”
Kinsley explains that in vitro clinics, in their efforts to produce a
successful pregnancy, always create numerous embryos, ultimately
selecting the best and destroying the rest. Thus not only is murder
involved, as thousands of embryonic human beings are destroyed in
fertility clinics, but also eugenics, as only the healthiest embryos
are selected for implantation.
“In any particular case, fertility clinics try to produce more embryos
than they intend to implant. Then…they pick and choose among the
candidates, looking for qualities that make for a better human being…If
the fertility clinic rejects you, you get flushed away—or maybe frozen
until the day you can be discarded without controversy.”
The only logical conclusion, he says, “is that if embryos are human
beings, the routine practices of fertility clinics are far worse—both
in numbers and in criminal intent—than stem-cell research.”
Kinsley, however, following his display of logical clarity in linking
the moral equivalance of the practices of IVF and embryonic stem cell
research,
continues on to state about the practices of fertility clinics that,
“And yet no one objects, or objects very loudly.” From this alleged
silence he infers that pro-life advocates are inconsistent, and thereby
calls into question the sincerity of the pro-life belief that the
embryo is a human being with all the same human rights as any other
human being. If even pro-life advocates—he indicates—don’t believe in
the
humanity of the embryo in all circumstances, but only selectively, then
the embryo must not be human.
Pro-life advocates, however, would strongly disagree with Kinsley's
assertion that the pro-life community is silent on the issue of IVF
being equally murderous as embryonic stem cell research. "Playing God
by creating humans in petri dishes is simply
wrong," American Life League president Judie Brown has been quoted as
saying, echoing the belief of the pro-life movement the world over.
"The pro-life movement needs to address the evils of in vitro
fertilization with the same diligence with which we denounce all other
forms of abortion."
Many other pro-life and religious groups have strongly condemned
IVF for its wanton destruction of human life, and there is a strong
effort to inform the public on its true nature, and to overturn
legislation allowing the precedure. The Vatican, for one, has
consistently and vociferously condemned in vitro
fertilization, and Catholic teaching is that those who obtain IVF
treatments do so at the
pain of serious sin, and possible excommunication.
Since
its inception LifeSiteNews.com for its own part has published hundreds of articles
revealing the truth about in vitro fertilization—that it results in the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of children annually, and opens itself
up to eugenic abuses.
See http://www.lifesite.net/features/invitro/ for a partial list of LifeSiteNews.com stories on IVF.
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