Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [Politics] Amendment 2 ads and lies

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Oh I'm not implying it would happen.....  it was just a flash image in my head.... but it really did speak to something that does concern me if embryos are in fact life.... namely that we could be expending umpteen thousands on a single patient for nothing more than a retardation in their progression.... and if the debate is settled now that they are not life, just pennies, we will have a future where nobody will bat an eye at the use of a few thousand, because hey, they're just pennies, and what's $10 or $20 to give someone a better time of... To suggest that such a minuscule expense might be too much would make someone who opposes such things seem completely unreasonable.

Jennifer Dozar wrote:

I just had this image in my head about a 6 pack of little identical 
fetuses that one gets from the pharmacy and keeps in the fridge, and 
then pulls the tab off the top or pops the tab in soda fashion and then 
drinks the contents, and some guy at work just drinking one in front of 
everyone like it was a Mr. Pibb and saying, "Yhep, it doesn't cure me, 
but it sure makes things manageable.  It doesn't really cure me, but it 
does slow down the progression.  The problem is that I'm up to 4 a day 
and these things are so damn expensive and the insurance deductible is 
huge."
    

THis will NEVER actually happen, so not even sure why you thought of
that.  Most of those embryos will be killed eventually anyways.
Honestly, what difference would it make if they were killed to help
medical research or to help someone get better with a very bad disease
or just killed outright because they've been sitting in a frozen tank
for the last 20 years?  

I"m not really dissing the Christian type religions but they seem to
come up with the most ridiculous and bizzare and off the wall examples
and ideas of what something means... Not all christans do this and
other religions, like Tom Cruise and his Scientology thing, come up with
that kind of weird stuff too.  Maybe our society is becoming too
"visual" like everything is a bad scifi movie....

  

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