Hang Right Politics

Posted by Kathy on October 28th, 2006 in Values, Stem Cells, Abortion

Birth is merely a relatively unimportant stage in the life of a tiny human being, begun nine months before the trip to the maternity ward.

Just as it was with Michael J. Fox, who was fortunate enough to survive the time of his mother’s pregnancy and be allowed to live. Now he is in trouble and we should all care very much. He cares and became a champion for stem-cell research after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

Which is entirely understandable. But was stem-cell research wrong before this? Was it unimportant or irrelevant? The point I am making is that Fox’s attitude towards the issue is shaped not by morality or science but by desperation and need.

Once again, entirely understandable. Yet wrong. He is no longer objective and thus no longer reliable. We listen to him not because he is an expert but because he is a victim. Emotion becomes more significant than truth.

The irony of this is that pro-lifers are routinely accused of being emotional and unreasonable, when in fact reason is at the centre of their cause.

Those who insist on the right to abort babies so as to use their stem cells are the ones who use the ailing and the ill to promote their policies.

There is no such opportunity for the unborn. They cannot speak for themselves, so we have to speak for them. I’m sure that someone as sensitive and vulnerable as Michael J. Fox would understand why.

Michael Cohen on the stem cell controversy. Read it all!.

I found this article through Lucianne.com. Here’s some of the comments I found there:

Reply 1 - Posted by: jhp, 10/28/2006 9:02:49 AM

The mistake of those that wrote the ad and subsequentially that of Fox, was to imply that all people that don’t support the amendment hate sick people and want to kill them.

This blew the whole thing up and exposed what the authors and advocates of the Amendment hoped would remain shadowed, that being the the goal, Constitutionally enshrined, to create life, play with it and abort it at will. If a cure for somethiong fell in their laps they’d take it, but that’s a side issue.

Reply 2 - Posted by: Dolphish, 10/28/2006 9:03:03 AM

I’m at the point now where I’m unable to “be moved” by people like Fox. Yes, I sympathize with people’s suffering–but when they use that suffering for such negative purposes (no matter how “well-intentioned” they are), I can’t garner that sympathy any more. Max Cleland, the Jersey girls, Cindy Sheehan, and now Michael J. Fox–the Left continues to use victims as their standard-bearers because they are unwilling to debate actual issues. The Left has used Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Gays, the handicapped, the aggrieved, the poor, and every victim group possible to pass off their Leftist tripe. I simply can’t swallow this stuff anymore.

Reply 3 - Posted by: bill schafer, 10/28/2006 9:07:32 AM

If stem cell research hold such promise ; where are the big time investers, they should be dumping money into it big time, unless what the media is trying to sell us is bogus. Where ever there stands a chance for a return on investments, the big time money people will be there making sure they get a slice of the pie. What this is saying is that Stem Cell Research hold very little chance of any big time discovery or cure.

Reply 4 - Posted by: JER, 10/28/2006 9:13:53 AM

Wow. What an article. Should be read by everyone. I worry deeply about folks who could read this article and not agree with it. They have no heart and no soul - and no humanity.

Reply 5 - Posted by: LittleHoodedMonk, 10/28/2006 9:15:49 AM

‘The mistake of those that wrote the ad and subsequentially that of Fox, was to imply that all people that don’t support the amendment hate sick people and want to kill them.’

People like Fox should be more afraid of HIS dRATS party turning on him and using his disability as a reason for euthanasia legislation to someday pass (first in California).

UPDATE: Captain’s Quarters has this to add regarding Fox’s erroneous attack on Michael Steele. So much for this being non-partisan - Cardin the democrat is against it and Steele is for it, but because Steele, who’s sister has MS is a republican, Fox is campaigning for Cardin.

Still think it’s nonpartisan - still think it’s about medical research? Well you’d be wrong.