Cures From The Womb
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 Now that President Clinton has rescinded the ban on spending federal funds for the transplantation of tissue from aborted fetuses into humans, the field is wide open.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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