As the souls of endless humans cry out
Who were never given the chance to live
Or the opportunity to reach their full potential
The investigator delights in the potential of his findings.
Their life is created, only to be snuffed out
In order to save another
As though that made it right.
Such mindless brutality…
If the roles were reversed
And the power lay in the hands of the powerless
Then would they understand
The senseless extermination?
As the souls of endless humans cry out
The God of the orphan and widow is grieved
Because of the barbarity.
Ways of doing evil have been invented
And the powerful are handed over
To lavish in their wickedness.
The powerful will only think of their own mortality
And will use whatever means it takes
To control their diseases
And ease their pain
Even if it means the murder of the innocent and helpless.
But all they do is prolong their final destiny.
6 comments:
It's so wrong isn't it? Who will be the voice for the weak and defenceless? Well, we will.
But what can we do now that the bill has been passed? Do you know of anything Dave???
Laws can be overturned by new governments. (Look at the current IR debate). We can speak out as citizens in our society- write to MPs, newspapers, senators. (Incidently, the latest Briefing has some advice on writing letters to newspapers). Vote for politicians that will represent us (although I know that my local MP was quite against this Bill).
And pray.
ANd yes, it would be good to catch up sometime
This is quite possibly one of the worst days as far as scientific and moral ethics go. Just how far will it end up going now that it has started is now the next issue we face sadly...
Whatever the politicians were thinking when they passed this I will never know and I would question whether they really have enough education/unerstanding to be making decisions like this - Democracy at its finest hour....
Someone brought up today (think it was Judy actually), the question of what do we do if we know people who are in chronic pain who could be helped by a treament developed by stem-cell research? How hard would it be to say no, but could this be our call to witness?
What do you think?
Yes those with chronic pain and other "uncurable" diseases can see this as a light at the end of a tunnel - and it may be such, although I wouldn't expect cures over night from it.
The main issue I have is that it is using a human (albeit unborn) and killing them then harvesting their cells and experimenting.... Does this make us any better than dictators in countries that kill to support their whims? or graverobbers of the early 16th century who dug up graves and cut up the corpses to get a better idea of anatomy? (they were executed)
Do we have the right to kill another human so that someone can live a pain free life? (Don't get me wrong here, I do understand how bad a chronic illness is but I want to put it in perspective). If we needed cells from a 1 year old or 6 month old child (and it killed them getting it) would a bill be passed allowing the "making" of a child for just such a purpose? From a christian perspective when is life, life? As a biologist this is something I have struggled with over my eudcation/career and I still don't have a solid answer but definately at the stage they are talking (14 days) the "cell mass" is a human.
Also now that this is started how far down the track will it progress.... the ball has started rolling and from my point of view I don't think we can say where it will stop... if its ok to do it at stage "x" then whats to stop it being taken further by unethical people and after a few years of people getting used to this technology whos to say we won't approve something else down the track that is ethically worse.
end rant - sorry, quite annoyed by this decision our governing people have made (can't blame one side or the other cause it was a conscience vote).
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