In the face of yet another grotesque Obama policy decision on the issue of life, famed bioethicist Wesley J. Smith pondered a similar question. On his blog, he wondered why on earth Obama would take the totally unnecessary action he did in undoing executi
Many Catholics do not know this very consoling truth; the grace of God reaches us through his sacraments ex opere operato. For many this is a meaningless Latin phrase, but it packs a punch when examined more closely.
A CROP OF CHILDREN?
Author: ADRIENNE ROLWES
Last Post Date: 2009-05-15 “In the face of yet another grotesque Obama policy decision
on the issue of life, famed bioethicist Wesley J. Smith
pondered a similar question. On his blog, he wondered why
on earth Obama would take the totally unnecessary action he
did in undoing executive order 13435. Smith’s conclusion: “I can
think of only two reasons for this action…First, vindictiveness against
all things "Bush" or policies considered by the Left to
be "pro life;" and second, a desire to get the
public to see unborn human life as a mere corn
crop ripe for the harvest. So much for taking the
politics out of science.”(from ‘Obama’s Stem Cell Disgrace’ by
Guy Benson, Townhall.com, Sunday, March 15th, 2009) Obama has decided
to fund stem-cell research that specifically calls for the destruction
of embryos, and has revoked all government funding for non-controversial
stem-cell research. That is what happened when he silently revoked
executive order 13435, all the while spinning a web of
rhetoric about the necessary advance of science, and the necessity
of choosing facts over ideology. Bush had supported this non-controversial
brand of research, which, moreover, has been showing many more
signs of success on the scientific level. What is very
striking, however, is what Wesley J. Smith suggests; Obama wants
‘the public to see unborn human life as a mere
corn crop ripe for the harvest.’
This phrase has
some very thought-provoking associations.
If one were to travel through
Louisiana nowadays, they might come across a certain Laura plantation
in the little town of Vacherie. The former owner of
this estate, a French expatriate, was a very shrewd businesswoman
who decided that, given the high price of slaves in
New Orleans, she would buy several females and only a
few males in order to create ‘une cuvée d’enfants.’ That
translates into ‘a (vintage) crop of children.’ Sound familiar?
No wonder her granddaughter, Laura Locoul Gore, decided to leave
the plantation and start another life for herself in St.
Louis, Missouri. She could not stomach the thought of inheriting
the family business and thereby continuing to use human life
so gratuitously for economic profit.
That was the era of
slavery in the 1800s, but what Obama proposes is no
different. Slavery is the use of human lives for one’s
own profit, whether they are born or unborn. Embryonic stem-cell
research is the slavery of the unborn, the wholesale slaughter
of life to support a kind of living that cannot
really be called living, because it strips the human being
of anything ennobling or worthy of imitation. It is nothing
less than a holocaust of the unborn so that the
more powerful and more wealthy can continue to pursue their
goals in peace. All the talk about embryonic research being
able to save lives has no foundation in the actual
research that has been done. Again and again, it is
adult stem-cell research that has shown the best results; and
now its funding has been revoked. So embryonic research will
continue with a new wave of political and economic support.
And all of this, done in the name of ‘science’,
will ensure the continual flow of enormous sums of money
into the hands of those who have no qualms about
the moral monstrosities that this implies. There is no compassion
for the weak; only the use of human persons for
pleasure, profit, health, and anything else desirable. What will happen
to the concept of ‘humanity’ at this point is anyone’s
guess.
Or is it?
If more Americans were willing
to stand up to defend life in all its stages
without compromise, the story might turn out differently. Obama is
our president, but we do not have to follow in
his footsteps. We don’t have to remain on the plantation
if it means slavery, if it means building an empire
on the slaughter of the unborn and the destruction of
thousands of women’s lives as well through abortion on demand.
As Americans we need to respect the office of the
president, but we don’t have to agree with him. If
we are going to cease treating human lives as a
corn crop, we need to hold fast to our principles
and choose something else for ourselves, just as Laura did.
It took her six years, however, to tell her family
of her decision and to follow through with it. Hopefully
it will not take Americans that long, given the high
toll that the culture of death brings year by year
and minute by minute.
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