My adult life pretty much spans the modern feminist movement -- you know, that boon to womankind which has given us millions of aborted children, millions more left in day care centers while their moms "fulfill" themselves in the workplace, the "hooking up" culture that leaves women feeling emotionally and spiritually empty if not infected with an STD, and the idea that men are only good as temporary sperm donors. Add to that list of lies told to women the newest twist, exposed by the latest To the Source article, "Time to turn the surgical tables, boys." Here's the scam:

John T. Gill, chairman of the Texas Healthcare Task Force, and Texas GOP Rep. Pete Sessions are promoting embryonic stem cell research by telling everyone they can, including members of Congress, that egg harvesting from women is a "simple, minimally invasive procedure." [emphasis mine]

One wonders, however, if these southern gentlemen would still believe egg extraction was "minimally invasive" if it was done to men? 

Here's what that would require: first male donors would inject themselves with hormones daily to shut down testicular function. Then they would shift to daily injections of a different hormone that would cause their testicular function to go into warp speed and their testes to swell to abnormal size. 

These daily injections would prepare the men to undergo surgical procedures with anesthesia whereby catheters with needles at the end would be inserted into the testes to remove large quantities of sperm. After extraction, about 5 percent of the men would suffer side effects ranging from infection, to future fertility damage, to death.

One could forgive any man reading this far for cringing, but the above description is almost exactly what egg-donation proponents are asking our young women to do in order to get eggs to be cloned for stem cell research, not just to make babies.

The article goes on to outline the procedure done on women and gives examples of young women who sadly discovered that a fatter bank balance couldn't compensate for the long-term damage they suffered.   

So, what's driving the propaganda aimed at convincing young women "it is their civic duty to give some eggs for the cause"? Embryonic stem cell research, that panacea for all that ails us according to the likes of  Nancy Pelosi: "Science is a gift of God to all of us, and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure ... And that is the embryonic stem cell research."

I don't know about the rest of you, but that kind of language scares me to death. It echoes the hubris of ancient people who sought to build a tower up to heaven -- symbolic of mankind's attempts to dispense with God by usurping god-like powers for ourselves. We all know how that little experiment turned out, and we can only wonder when God will say "enough" to our latest attempts to fix what has gone wrong in the world (in our bodies) without Him.      

 

Comments

[Dan Knight]

Diane;
Thanks for the illustration of "egg harvesting" - Frankly, not being a women I am somewhat detached, but I'd find it insulting for any person to suggest "harvesting" anything from me; What a dehumanizing phrase, regardless of how much "civic duty" it is wrapped in.

My mother passed away many years ago, but in honor of her and all mothers (real or potential) I offer the following description of a different form of "egg harvesting"...

It is dark.
I hear nothing but a constant pounding,
like native drums across the bay.
Floating in an unknown substance, I feel
alone, yet somehow connected.
Occasionally I hear voices calling me.
Who are they?
I feel pain, much pain, varying pain,
the causes of which I cannot effect;
I am helpless.
Yet in this moist, helpless world of mine,
where all that I experience is out of my control,
there is peace.
Then there is pain again.
this time different,
crushing, pressuring, suffocating pain.
My world is collapsing,
the sky is falling.
The incessant pounding gets faster,
and faster as the pain greatly increases
The sky above my head rips open,
A light appears.
I reach for it and it draws me.
The closer I am to the light,
the harsher the pain, penetrating my skull,
pounding on the brain.
Finally, by unseen hands, I am draw fully into the light,
as my other world collapses in an agonizing crescendo of pain,
All around is light,
bright, piecing, clean.
My connection is severed, but not gone.
There is a woman in this world of light,
I am place on her breast,
moist with sweat, induced by pain.
I hear the pounding of my native drums,
I gaze into her eyes,
I hear her voice, familiar and warm.
I am in love.

Life given birth thru pain.

Thanks mom!

[Rachel Coleman]

You're right, Diane -- the element of hubris here is breathtaking. If scientists "succeed" in cloning humans to create pseudo-life (I can't bring myself to call it life), how long will God's patience and mercy continue?
We are made in God's image; what an honor. To presume that we can improve on what He alone could breathe to life is very close to the sin before the original sin -- that is, Lucifer's prideful attempt to be like God.
I pray God won't allow it. Come, Lord Jesus.