August 2019 – Article 2:
Determined to upend virtually everything God has ordained, scientists around the world are rushing to drastically alter how babies are conceived.
Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem recently announced a major breakthrough in transforming normal skin cells into three types of stem cells found in early-stage embryos.
Conducted using mice, the work reportedly has the potential for both studying embryonic diseases and eventually generating whole embryos.
Led by Dr. Yossi Buganim, the team utilized certain genes that are capable of transforming the skin cells into stem cells that will produce an embryo, and other embryonic tissues such as the umbilical cord and placenta.
If successfully applied to human skin cells, the method could produce human embryos with no need to unite egg and sperm in the God-intended way.
The development advances earlier work done by Japanese researchers in 2007 who were able to transform mouse skin cells into early-stage embryonic stem cells. However, they were not able to create cells capable of producing other embryonic tissues like the placenta.
Promoters of the technique boast it will eventually aid infertile couples by allowing women to obtain eggs without going through the painful egg production and extraction procedure, which involves doses of hormones with uncertain long term effects.
Infertile men would also be able to produce sperm using the same process.
Embryos Treated as a Commodity
If eggs and sperm can be artificially created, in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos could be produced easily and in large numbers, which would change the landscape of assisted conception when combined with the option of genetic screening, explained Henry Greely of Stanford University in California when commenting on the Japanese experiments.
One writer added it would allow women to easily and painlessly produce “huge numbers” of embryos. “What might we do with such a choice?” he asked.
One can only wonder. However, combining the process with genetic screening is a guaranteed prescription for destroying pre-born children who don’t match the desired specifications of their prospective parents.
Greely highlights this very fact. He foresees a day when clients are presented with lists of characteristics for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of their own embryos.
Choices could include: a male with dark eyes, light brown hair, and a lower risk of prostate cancer; or a tall, dark-haired girl with a 55% chance of being in the top half of SAT scoring.
Stem cell biologist Werner Neuhausser at Harvard paints an even darker view of where all this could lead, noting that a generation of genetic elites could be conceived by those that can afford it.
“But, If only one in 1,000 embryos is ‘normal’, this may prove too difficult and expensive for routine IVF,” he says.
Think about what that would mean. It would be a total disregard for the Personhood of the 999 children discarded in the process, killed simply because they didn’t measure up to specifications.
Not deterred, Greely thinks IVF might eventually become the default method of human reproduction. “I expect that, sometime in the next 20 to 40 years…sex [for reproduction] will largely disappear,” he wrote in his 2016 book The End of Sex.
Men and Women Could be “Uniparents”
It gets crazier. Skin cells of both men and women could, in principle, be transformed into eggs and sperm.
That would allow homosexual couples of both sexes to have babies that are genetically related to both parents, although male couples would need a surrogate mother.
Way out there is a suggestion that a single individual could conceive a child using eggs and sperm created from his or her own skin cells, what Greeley calls a “unibaby” or “uniparent.”
What is happening to us? How did we get to the place where we’ve allowed technology to make it possible for us to shake our fists at God and say, “we’ll do it our way”?
Because of a lack of attention or failure to recognize the assault against persons, the path has opened up to allow these bizarre and unbiblical ideas to come to fruition.
Only continuous, fervent prayer will thwart the efforts of those who have no regard for God or the sanctity of human life.
Sources: the guardian.com; docwirenews.com.
By Wayne DuBois
Georgia Right to Life