Obama
defunds ‘snowflake babies’: Program aids in embryo adoption
[Obama defunds
‘snowflake babies’: Program aids in embryo adoption] "The federal government’s
only program aimed at preventing the discarding of “extra” frozen human embryos
is itself in danger of being discarded.
In a move that pro-lifers are calling more evidence of the Obama
administration’s “pro-abortion slant,” the White House has sought to defund the
Embryo Adoption Awareness Campaign in its fiscal 2013 budget.
The Department of Health and Human Services “is not requesting funds for this
program” because “the Embryo Adoption program will be discontinued in FY2013,”
HHS officials said in a February funding report to Congress.
While some observers support this move as a way to free up funds for more urgent
reproductive-health concerns, supporters of embryo adoption say this is the
wrong time to abandon embryos that are sometimes called “snowflake babies.”
“I think that daily we talk to people about … embryo donation and adoption, and
we hear the response, ‘Really? I didn’t know that was even possible,’” said Ron
Stoddart, executive director of Nightlight Christian Adoptions, which in 1997
pioneered the process of infertile couples “adopting” the extra embryos that
another couple’s in-vitro fertilization process inevitably produces..." Full
text:
Obama defunds ‘snowflake babies’
Pr 8:36
Response to comment [from a
Christian]: "The president has no influence on abortion policy. Our resident
expert on the law here told me so."
Obama's on a
roll.
He's got to kill the rest of the kids (Jn 10:10).
People who adopt these children typically vote Republican.
Their kids grow up and vote Republican.
Response to comment [from an
atheist]: "You mean Obama's trying to kill Republican babies
before they're even born!"
Come to think of it, he'd kill Dems,
too. He calls his own grandchildren a "mistake".
"Oh man, that guy's insidious."
He's an equal opportunity child-killer.
Response to comment [from a Jew]: "Cells in a lab freezer are not children."
Jer 1:5
"I said they aren't children."
God said differently (Jer 1:5).
"Yeah..well, these cells weren't formed by God in the womb. They were put
together by doctors in a dish. The verse you quote really has nothing to do with
the reality of this particular situation. There are hundreds of other issues
that are in greater need of our money and attention."
Doctors don't create life.
God creates life (Gen.
2:7; Deut.
8:3; Deut.
30:20; Deut.
32:39, 40; 1
Sam. 2:6; Job
27:3; Job
34:14, 15; Psa.
22:29; Psa.
30:3; Psa.
68:20; Psa.
104:30; Eccl.
12:7; Isa.
38:16–20; Acts
17:25, 26, 28; Rom.
4:17; 1
Tim. 6:13; Jas.
4:15).
[The Left's War on Babies by Brent Bozell] "In the wake
of the Obama administration dictate that private insurance companies cover
contraceptives and abortifacients, supporters have defined anyone who would
oppose this mandate as waging a "war against women." Obviously, no opponent of
this policy is actually bombing, shooting or stabbing women to death.
The same cannot be said for what the cultural left favors -- a war against
babies. The latest front of "advanced" leftist medical ethics has emerged from
the experts at Oxford University. They don't just favor abortion, even
partial-birth abortion. They favor "after-birth abortion."
It is stomach-turning stuff. Killing babies is no different than abortion, these
academics argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Ironically, pro-lifers would
agree and have long pointed to this logical progression in the face of laughter.
The "ethicists" now explain it somewhat differently. Parents should be allowed
to kill their newborn babies because they're still "morally irrelevant."
The article carries the chilling title "After-Birth abortion: Why should the
baby live?" Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue newborn babies aren't
"actual persons" but "potential persons."
How this qualifies as "science" or "ethics" is anyone's guess. It qualifies as a
quintessential example of the culture of death. Giubilini also gave a talk at
Oxford in January titled "What is the problem with euthanasia?"
Team Oxford argued it was "not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her
from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant
sense." They explained that "what we call 'after-birth abortion' (killing a
newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including
cases where the newborn is not disabled."
These "ethicists" also argued that parents are somehow cheated when only "64
percent of Down syndrome cases" in Europe are diagnosed by prenatal testing.
Once such children were born, there was "no choice for the parents but to keep
the child," they complained.
All this should cause us to return to what Rick Santorum was trying to say --
and our pro-abortion media could only scorn as politically disastrous -- about
amniocentesis being used as a death panel. The Santorum family's decision to
have a disabled child -- as well as the Palin family's decision -- have been
disdained by the liberal media as freakishly weird, dangerously religious. It's
an "alternative lifestyle" that the "compassionate" liberals cannot comprehend."
Story:
The Left's War on Babies
Baby Born From Record Breaking 24-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
Alabama Supreme Court Rules That Frozen Embryos Are Persons
