News Intelligence Analysis
May 29, 2005
Bush and the Blastocysts
Or How to Cure the Snowflake Baby Propaganda
By Pamela A. Kraemer
Did you get to hear or read any of the comments our President is parading around the "snowflake" baby? It's like a carnival midway freak show. Well, I have some questions of my own:
1) Where did the President get the term Snowflake Baby? (Is Frank Luntz, the GOP propagandist-in-residence behind it?)
2) Does the President know the stages of cellular and fetal development?
3) Since he thinks that all frozen "embryos" (actually
in this case they should be called blastocysts), should be brought
to life, where is he going to find all these women who
will be willing to carry, give birth to and then support a child
that has no relation to them? That would roughly be in the neighborhood
of 330,000 wombs. What about all of the already born, unwanted
babies out there? Shouldn't they get a crack at a family first?
4) Has Mr. Bush thought about the following probabilities: These
"Snowflake babies" will probably have several brothers
and or sisters wandering around. Also, the legal parent(s) will
be responsible for any unknown genetic problems arising from
the unknown sperm and egg donors. Who will foot the medical bills
when those problems arise? (Those very medical problems could
possibly be cured if stem cell research was promoted and not
a false religious "ethical" question.)
5) What about those unknown donors? Do they want their genetic
offspring brought to birth without their permission and then
raised by people of unknown background, origin, religious beliefs
etc? Do Jewish donors want their genetic material to be brought
to life and raised by members of the KKK?
6) Has the President, who, as far as I know, has a very limited
background in medical research, given any thought to what the
political and ethical backlash that his offensive statements
regarding these groups of 60 cells will be?
7) Since Mr. Bush believes that using blastocysts for medical
research is akin to murder, what about the thousands of implanted
blastocysts that are rejected by the mother? Should her womb
be brought up on charges for murder?
To presume that all of these groups of cells should be brought to birth in some draconian manner is absurd. Around 30,000 blastocysts are frozen annually. That's nowhere near the number that are used for actual fertilization. Where do they go? Most of them end up, after several years in storage, being tossed out. And they're tossed out with no funeral! The cost of keeping a petrie dish of blastocysts in frozen storage is about $50 each month they are kept in limbo. So once a couple conceives once or twice, the remaining cells are left in cold storage until space has run out and there is no more room in the cylinder. To argue that these frozen cells should not be used for medical research is reasoning from the Dark Ages. To deny medical professionals laboring to discover cures for numerous diseases in which stem cell research is an important part, is limiting their ability, as scientists, to relieve the suffering of the living and their families. The president's position is logically unsane for it is based upon ignorance and ultimately a latent but real hatred of those living sentient humans who are suffering from diseases that stem cell research may cure. Mr. Bush has taken an anti-Christian position again. He wages war on real life while pretending he serves life by adopting a culture of petrie dish preservation! Mr. Bush is not pro-life at all--he's pro-birth and then he's anti-life after that! That is not a Christian position.
Pamela Kramer is a Yurica Report guest columnist. Contact her
at: kraemercreative@san.rr.com
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