tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55734922011-04-21T15:00:17.966-07:00Life SupportIssues of life, from conception to the graveMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag: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
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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.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1071866481543198912003-12-19T12:41:00.000-08:002003-12-19T12:42:15.950-08:00For those who would like a few illustrations of the concepts offered in the below linked manuscript regarding stem cells and cloning, here's a link to the image gallery at Human Genome Project:
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/images.shtml Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1071866246419507602003-12-19T12:37:00.000-08:002003-12-19T12:38:54.843-08:00For those who would like a few illustrations of the concepts offered in the below linked manuscript regarding stem cells and cloning, here's a link to the image gallery at Human Genome Project:
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/images.shtml Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1071782705123234352003-12-18T13:25:00.000-08:002003-12-18T13:25:58.716-08:00Free Resource Offer regarding educational material on stem cells and cloning:
Much has been made in the media and on the Congressional Record of the so-called ‘promise’ of embryonic stem cells and cloning for therapeutic applications. Major media have reported this field of stories with a clear bias that dehumanizes the individual human embryo as ‘not yet a human being’ or ‘not yet human enough, Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1068919028499822532003-11-15T09:57:00.000-08:002003-11-16T21:28:41.483-08:00America, We Need To Talk ©By Marvin Galloway Exchange between two Washington Lobbyists at a recent costume party: Woman, dressed in a donkey costume: Knock knock. Man, dressed in an elephant costume: Whos there? Woman: Clone. Man: Clone who? Woman: Dont know, Senate hasnt decided yet. Man smiles while staring at the wall with a far-away look in his eyes, then lifts his trunk, downsMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1067186111228633262003-10-26T08:35:00.000-08:002003-11-16T21:37:27.903-08:00Musings From My Quiet Porch
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, I sat in a recliner and watched a very long but exciting televised football game, Alabama versus Tennessee. As I watched from the chair, was my quality of life good or diminished? After all, the images and sounds were fully artificial stimulation to my brain. ... Since no one has yet proven Terri is not still 'in there', to my thinking, Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1066848248755148132003-10-22T11:44:00.000-07:002003-10-22T11:51:46.926-07:00Taking Back Our Societal Taboo Structure
For the past two weeks, America and perhaps the world witnessed the lastest publicized struggle over euthanasia, witnessed the real juxtaposition of life and the new-aged enlightenemnet of 'putting down' the disabled and infirm, putting them down and out of our consciousness.
Euthanasia requires a new paradigm, a process upon which to build. Terri Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1064894015719011872003-09-29T20:53:00.000-07:002003-09-29T21:02:51.340-07:00
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 the pitiful things, alive or dead, while the mothers looked on, then left the bloody carcass at the mother's wailing side and moved to the next one! In the Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1064763239373275232003-09-28T08:33:00.000-07:002003-09-28T08:33:59.033-07:00Musings From My Quiet Porch
Several years ago, while discussing abortion and contraception at FreeRepublic.com, Internet news site, I raised the issue of life struggling to survive and I applied the notion to the embryo in a human uterus seeking to implant in the uterine lining in order to continue the living process and gestation. A sharp-witted defender of abortion as a woman’s right counteredMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1064529829461202602003-09-25T15:43:00.000-07:002003-09-25T15:46:09.663-07:00Pre Roe v Wade federal ruling recognizing the personhood of the unborn
The following was posted by my friend Kevin (cpforlife.org) as a reminder during a recent abortion discussion at FreeRepublic.com. Pro-life people need to become aware of this very importent yet ignored ruling.
The "personhood" case is the legal factor that is the heart of the matter as to why this nation has had a 30 year Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1064116511163638202003-09-20T20:55:00.000-07:002003-09-20T21:23:58.303-07:00Response to Bill O'Reilly: The Unborn Child is Human
by Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.
Seems conservative stalwart Bill O'Reilly is either frightfully confused, or fudging his facts. Last Friday evening [this happened in 2001; O’Reilly has since tried to avoid these ‘life’ issues since he is so inept with them], O'Reilly graciously read to his TV audience some letters received by him from some Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1064023330791267292003-09-19T19:02:00.000-07:002003-09-19T19:02:28.910-07:00Letter to the Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Confusion 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 orMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1063770236736660132003-09-16T20:43:00.000-07:002003-09-16T20:43:56.623-07:00Here's the Prologue to my Tree Of Life novel ... read this slowly, aloud, with the voice of Omar Sahrif in your head.
The Tree of Life©
[The following story is fiction, the characters are a fiction; any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.]
Have you ever wondered what treasures the human family may have held and lost, what truths have faded as technology hasMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1063589449918294452003-09-14T18:30:00.000-07:002003-09-14T18:41:52.213-07:00Excerpts from Turnabout, a novel [If anyone is actually reading these meanderings I'm posting to this thing called a blog page]
Jason’s life in East Tennessee was comfortable, but his compulsion for orderliness made life somewhat lonely. He taught Physics at a nearby university and lived by himself following a recent divorce. His basement served as a gunsmith’s shop. Most men Jason's age at theMarvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1063329386624618122003-09-11T18:16:00.000-07:002003-09-11T18:16:26.706-07:00For those who don't believe hugs are are an essential ingredient for life, I offer the following visual with short note:
Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1062821333431957042003-09-05T21:08:00.000-07:002003-09-05T21:19:07.290-07:00The Depravity Potential In America
I’m tapping this out on Friday night, September 5, 2003. This past week, a murderer of a paid serial killer was executed in Florida. The man executed was convicted using the law and courts to convict and sentence him (to be truthful, the executed murderer actually killed more than just his intended victim). The man he murdered was never tried or convicted of Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1062652560877853232003-09-03T22:16:00.000-07:002003-09-03T22:16:00.916-07:00The following is a repost ... If someone reads it, hope you have tissues handy
Smell Of Rain: The story of Danae comforted on God's chest
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas, Texas as the Doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1062303167032805712003-08-30T21:12:00.000-07:002003-08-30T21:12:47.066-07:00It Is Time To Ban Human Cloning
Why did the President call for a ban on human cloning?
For the vast majority of Americans, the acceptance quotient regarding nascent life falls somewhere between ‘legal protection for all conceived individual human life’ and ‘legal protection for partial birth abortion.’ With acceptance of in vitro fertilization, followed eventually by the apparent necessity for Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1062225058839641732003-08-29T23:30:00.000-07:002003-08-30T09:29:43.430-07:00The Amorality Of Science Has Won
For years, essays opposing cloning and embryonic stem cell exploitation have been posted from this writer onto various discussion sites across the Internet. I’m tempted to make this the last of such efforts, for Science has won; the amorality of scientists has vanquished yours truly. The fundamental axiom that embryological human life is not the life of an Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1062175998985710172003-08-29T09:53:00.000-07:002003-08-29T09:53:19.060-07:00Reasonable People Cannot Always Agree To Disagree
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_5432.shtml
Don’t you just love it when someone with whom you're arguing says, “Well, we will just have to agree to disagree”, as a spin of the phrase ‘Reasonable people can agree to disagree’, or as the shortened version, ‘Reasonable people can disagree’? Can reasonable people disagree over cannibalism Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1061524080185034632003-08-21T20:48:00.000-07:002003-08-21T20:48:00.060-07:00DEHUMANIZING THE DISABLED
Editorial - Bob Schindler
Did you know in our country, the law can be manipulated to allow a husband or a wife to legally murder their spouse? It can easily be accomplished --IF- their spouse is disabled and --If- they are recognized by the court as the spouse's legal guardian.
It's not that difficult. Oversimplified, (using the husband as an example) sometime Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1061480824649939402003-08-21T08:47:00.000-07:002003-08-21T21:48:52.980-07:00The Lie Sandwich
The Democrat party and many of those in our society who make up that party's constituencies are touting *a woman's right to choose*. This slogan is intended as an appeal to women based on *reproductive rights*. There are two dirty lies woven together in that slogan.
First, reproductive rights are something between men and women: the right is 'try to conceive or not try to Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1061428294429785212003-08-20T18:11:00.000-07:002003-08-20T18:15:10.680-07:00Smell Of Rain: The story of Danae comforted on God's chest
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas, Texas as the Doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1061099227023032742003-08-16T22:47:00.000-07:002003-08-19T20:41:15.746-07:00SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN AMERICA
This past week, two very prominent issues briefly set Internet news discussion sites ablaze: 1) Terri Schiavo's impending court ordered starvation unto death; 2) the conflict between federal and state rights regarding a Ten Commandments monument set up in an Alabama Court building. The outrage factor from conservative Christians appears to be about equal in Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1059938432883675982003-08-03T12:20:00.000-07:002003-08-03T12:27:05.686-07:00THE Good news around the house
In the spirit of bloggery, here's some REALLY good news. My stepdaughter is keeping this baby mentioned in the previous blog, thus we have a new member of the family soon to arrive (Sept.13, 2003, if the baby decides to be 'conventional').
This ol' Papa (I have one beautiful granddaughter already) is excited and very much looking forward to the baby's arrival in Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1059585444694059762003-07-30T10:17:00.000-07:002003-07-30T10:19:35.413-07:00From The Circle Of Life Hang Many Rings
By Marvin Galloway
Forty years ago, I was a senior in High School. My graduated class is planning fortieth reunion festivities. Those facts, combined with a sprinkle of new facts that will be relevant in a moment, cause me to offer the following thought: the circle of life that is a lifetime (if you make it into the air world from the water world, and Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1058453842024730132003-07-17T07:57:00.000-07:002003-07-17T09:10:12.400-07:00Another Tape From Saddam?
Well, another tape has surfaced supposedly issued from Saddam Insane, urging the Iraqi loyalists to commit more murder and mayhem. Yup, an Arab broadcast station faithfully airs it regularly on this the anniversary of Saddam's Baathists Party rise to control over Iraq 35 years ago.
Okay, it's likely Saddam is still alive. But what's with the 'Arab broadcasting station'Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1058246422345277652003-07-14T22:20:00.000-07:002003-07-14T22:50:40.490-07:00Homosexuals Demanding Marriage Rights?
The trick question circulating from homosexual apologists is, 'How will allowing homosexuals to marry harm heterosexual marriage(s)?' To address this twisted query one must understand what marriage is, as an institution within society and thus a crucial institution for civilization. This writer is convinced that homosexuality is deviant behavior ... little Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1058129085604446102003-07-13T13:44:00.000-07:002003-08-17T22:54:01.966-07:00In Vitro Fertilization: Is there such a thing as a pre-embryo embryo?
In the spirit of blogging, here's an entry for this day.
During recent research for a novel I'm working to finish, I read the on-line pages of several in vitro fertilization clinics. Too many included misleading and erroneous wording. Here's one example, the term 'pre-embryo'.
To be sure, not all sites used this incorrect Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573492.post-1058070348000827782003-07-12T21:25:00.000-07:002003-07-12T21:25:48.020-07:00When Is Human Life A Human Being?
By Marvin Galloway
Since 1973, when the Roe abortion decision was handed down from the Supreme Court of the United States, science has advanced our understanding of prenatal (before birth) life to a depth few could have anticipated. Most of the discoveries are unexplained for the general public, as we wend our way through daily life unaware of the amazing Marvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01740463843724589629noreply@blogger.com