Recently, I read an article on NPR about how researchers were able to film a human embryo implanting into a uterus. Truly amazing stuff. But how did they do it?
I didn’t have to search to find out, it was in the article. Scientists made an artificial womb-like substance, and then gave embryos the chance to implant in it.
Let me expand on that a little bit.
They took laboratory-created HUMANS and put them in an environment where they could begin to live but had no chance of long-term survival, and they FILMED it. They “created” human life and treated it no differently than an amoeba. These embryos could have grown up to be scientists themselves, movie stars, Subway sandwich makers, moms and dads. Instead, they were given the opportunity to start their lives on a substance that guaranteed their imminent deaths.
I know embryos are purposefully destroyed all the time, and I believe that is an evil thing. But this – it seems so cruel. The lack of moral concern by the scientists and the author of the article (and, presumably, the readers) is stunning.
Some of the most heinous sins in the OT involved people sacrificing their children to the fire, as an offering to their false gods. We are now sacrificing our children in the name of science, to the gods of knowledge, health, and beauty. The scientists say this could help our future children, but the utilitarian ethics are not convincing. Why are future children more valuable than the children destroyed in the lab last week? No future good can justify their deaths.
SDG