tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55734922009-02-21T01:00:37.401-08:00Life SupportIssues of life, from conception to the graveMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1118107263402550822005-06-06T18:17:00.000-07:002005-06-06T18:21:03.410-07:00CANNIBALIZING HUMAN’S FOR ‘ENLIGHTENED MEDICAL APPLICATIONS’Washington Journal, on the morning of Monday, June 6, 2005, had as their guest Robert Klein, a leader in the drive to fund and promote embryo stem cell harvesting and experimentation in California. It was a disturbing episode on several levels, mostly because of false assertions from Mister Klein and several supporting callers.There is Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1081743593492680322004-04-11T21:19:00.000-07:002004-04-11T21:39:22.606-07:00Musings From My Quiet Porch: Swatting at flies to satisfy the Bob Kerreys of this nation My home is on a cattle farm. Flies visit my porch after hatching in the fields, and I tend to swat the more determine beasties that irritate. My swattings do nothing to end the proliferation of flies born from the dung out in the fields. Bob Kerrey wanted to know from Dr. Rice ‘just what flies President BushMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1076732822395899612004-02-13T20:27:00.000-08:002004-02-13T20:28:52.936-08:00Borrowed from a friend Every time a pro-abortion dolt (like Governor Granholm, or John Kerry, or Teddy Kennedy, or Barbara Boxer, or Tom Harkin, or Diane Feinstein, or Frank Lautenberg, or Hillary Clinton and/or her deviant husband) says we don’t know when life begins, the following should be tattooed on their forehead. Is the following a secular enough agreement!!?? When does life begin? Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1076041740959448492004-02-05T20:29:00.000-08:002004-02-05T20:31:32.296-08:00Here’s an excerpt from an excellent essay regarding cloning. Google this man Smith for more great reading. The complete essay is available for reading at http://www.nrlc.org/news/2004/NRL01/pro_biomedical.htm or Click Here PRO-LIFE CHALLENGE Biomedical Ethics The Radical Depth and Scope of the Cloning Agenda By Wesley J. Smith Ever since embryonic stem cells were first extracted from human Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1075347893575985172004-01-28T19:44:00.000-08:002004-01-28T19:50:07.310-08:00Soon, too soon, the debates regarding cloning will arise in the House and Senate. The American people are sadly unprepared to understand the nuances of the arguments, because we are not well versed in the methodologies, in the 'what the heck does that mean' and 'how the heck do they do that' aspects of the issues. Here's another essay to help with preparation, then let the obfuscations begin! Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1074923249098124902004-01-23T21:47:00.000-08:002004-01-23T21:48:58.390-08:00Hidden Agenda: Why Democrats Ghoulishly Protect the Roe v Wade Ruling When the various states are calculated for number of abortions per capita, some states show higher rates than others. [This is also true for racial groupings, but we won’t go too much there in this screed.] If the laws governing abortion were written and enforced at the state levels, individually, and not controlled by the RoeMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1074745489621701602004-01-21T20:24:00.000-08:002004-01-21T20:26:16.996-08:00And Now For Something Different ... and my Spanish is not good! Do we have any Spanish speaking readers who would like to translate the below linked manuscript for Spanish speaking pro-life folks? Contact me at the e-mail addy in the right margin if interested. Cada curso de la vida humano individual tiene un principio. La ciencia indica inequívoco que el concepto es ése que comienza para por Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1074117154050289742004-01-14T13:52:00.000-08:002004-01-16T21:47:25.966-08:00It Is Time To Ban Human Cloning [Does anyone read archived blogs?... That's why I'm reposting a few of last years entries.] Why did the President call for a ban on human cloning, and the House pass such a ban that the Senate is now obstructing? For the vast majority of Americans, the acceptance quotient regarding nascent life falls somewhere between ‘legal protection for all conceived Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1074104248399964742004-01-14T10:17:00.000-08:002004-01-14T10:18:48.640-08:00Now, back to what I do for the fun of it … fiction. Scientographic Magazine: Dateline, Inverarnan, Scotland and Sun City, Arizona, USA: Today, the holy grail of medical sciences was realized, as scientists combining two diverse technologies verified the efficacy of their unique abilities. Scientists building nano-sized arrays of molecule manipulators succeeded in sandwiching a cloned embryo Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1074013714211598082004-01-13T09:08:00.000-08:002004-01-13T09:09:53.483-08:00Enlightened America? [The following was posted on this blog last year; time to revisit the notions since the dnc is gearing up for their obfuscatory primary.] America is assumed to be more enlightened than three plus decades ago. Is it? I can remember when Americans were outraged by TV coverage of newborn seal pup fur harvesting. Can you imagine?… Men clubbed newborns in the head and skinned Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073877049786092992004-01-11T19:10:00.000-08:002004-01-11T19:24:21.780-08:00Amniocentesis Definition : Amniocentesis is a diagnostic procedure performed by inserting a hollow needle through the abdominal wall into the uterus and withdrawing a small amount of fluid from the sac surrounding the fetus. Why the test is performed: The test can detect chromosomal disorders -- such as Down's syndrome, structural defects -- such as spina bifida (open spine, where the Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073797022738497652004-01-10T20:57:00.000-08:002004-01-10T21:13:17.373-08:00From The Washington Dispatch http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_7573.shtml OPINION A Modest Proposal, Courtesy of Abortion, Inc. Exclusive commentary by Daniel Stephens Coordinator American Life League's Rock for Life project American Life League's Rock for Life project Jan 9, 2004 … A similar idea was brought to light more than 200 years ago, although it was thought so absurd it was Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073615926335634372004-01-08T18:38:00.000-08:002004-01-08T18:41:00.513-08:00UNR researcher's stem-cell work lauded / Elaine Goodman / Reno Gazette-Journal / October 22nd, 2001 http://www.rgj.com/cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?publish_date=20011022&story=1003810380 It sounds like a science fiction novel but researcher Esmail Zanjani’s experiments at the University of Nevada, Reno are real. Zanjani injects human stem cells into sheep fetuses. The sheep grow up to have human Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073509864032975772004-01-07T13:11:00.000-08:002004-01-07T13:12:17.483-08:00Greater potential of adult stem cells revealed [http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning/cloning.jsp?id=ns99993723 ] In a claim that could profoundly affect the future of stem cell research, scientists at biotech giant Genzyme say that many supposedly different kinds of adult stem cells are in fact indistinguishable. Stem cells hold enormous promise for treating disease. The experiments Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073427047105201972004-01-06T14:10:00.000-08:002004-01-06T14:13:14.780-08:00 Riken Genomic Science Center has produced a textbook sized tome containing 60770 clones of mouse complementary dna. Researchers can simply punch the clones out of the page, dissolve them in water, amplify them with the polymerase chain reaction, and put them to use. [http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994445 ] Yoshihide Hayashizaki from the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Centre in Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073285743318935952004-01-04T22:55:00.000-08:002004-01-04T23:00:24.793-08:00Is It So Elementary, Dr. Watson? 2003 marks the fiftieth years since the discovery of the double helix, the shape of the DNA molecule that carries the message identification for an individual in a species. The April 2003 edition of Scientific American magazine carried an interview with James Watson, one of the Nobel Winners credited with defining the double helix of DNA (pp 67 – 69). James Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1073028167753803682004-01-01T23:22:00.000-08:002004-01-01T23:23:55.576-08:00Confusion regarding stem cells, and specifically embryonic stem cells, revolves around understanding earliest individual human life. The cells you’re born with aren’t the exact same tissues you have at thirty. Using sound reasoning, the development of a human body is a continuum that reaches from conception to natural death--hopefully eighty years or more after conception. All tissue in the Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072894814158823512003-12-31T10:20:00.000-08:002003-12-31T11:10:52.340-08:00*Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072852444369531962003-12-30T22:34:00.000-08:002003-12-30T22:35:10.076-08:00TestMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072847260753224392003-12-30T21:07:00.000-08:002003-12-30T21:57:02.140-08:00Here is a note regarding the oft-raised notion that the potential for twinning is reason to say there is no individual human being in the earlier stages of development following fertilization, using the term ‘pre-embryo’ as if there is not yet a human embryo until the twinning potential is over. The following exchange occurred during an on-line discussion of early human development. One person Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072677186582051762003-12-28T21:53:00.000-08:002003-12-28T21:55:19.373-08:00Here is something that reveals an astonishing piece of knowledge regarding the embryo, knowledge that is so new, it has yet to make it into all the modern textbooks. Doctor Jérôme Lejeune was a geneticists and pediatrician, world renowned for discovering the cause of Down’s Syndrome. On occasion, he testified in court trials as an expert witness. The following is from questioning done by an Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072562668770921282003-12-27T14:04:00.000-08:002003-12-27T14:05:31.450-08:00Available HERE in pdf format OR HERE in html Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072561268454227212003-12-27T13:41:00.000-08:002003-12-27T14:07:04.856-08:00The latest non-fiction book links Available HERE in pdf format OR HERE in html Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072506248675579852003-12-26T22:24:00.000-08:002003-12-26T22:25:10.436-08:00There is a rather simple way to check whether a biomedical procedure is ethical. Consider the following string of questions: Is it permissible to purposely conceive a handicapped individual who will not be born (raised in a lab not a living host), or if born will be unlikely to survive? Is it permissible to target purposely-handicapped individuals for harvesting of body parts (the stem Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1072196904483441792003-12-23T08:28:00.000-08:002003-12-23T08:29:22.780-08:00Men redundant? Now we don’t need women either The Observer (UK) | 02/10/2002 | Robin McKie ‘Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman's body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women's bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.com