Personhood

Donate Then Die

April 2020 – Article 1:    The traditional view has been that if you care for others you should sign up to be an organ donor—but only after you’re dead. That narrow-minded approach has never met the demand for organs, even though there are cases where doctors have ignored the “dead donor rule” and taken organs before the person actually died. The rule is intended to maintain a “firewall” between the team caring for the individual and organ harvesters whose primary interest is getting the...

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Autopsies Foiled

February 2020 - Article 2:   The increasing demand for harvested body parts often complicates—and often prevents—coroners from determining a cause of death. A recent, extensive article in the Los Angeles Times highlights a number of cases where questionable death investigations were thwarted because critical tissues and organs had been removed before a thorough investigation could be conducted. The cases included possible homicides, highway accidents, deaths after surgeries, drug...

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Adoption Celebrated… Partially

November is National Adoption Month. First conceived as a statewide event in Massachusetts in 1976, this year’s campaign is focused on the thousands of teenagers and young adults in foster care who still need a loving, permanent family and a place to call home. President Reagan proclaimed it National Adoption Week in 1984, and President Clinton expanded it to a month-long activity in 1995.

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Abandoning Precious Gifts

November 2019 – Article 1:    How many parents would abandon a child? Apparently a lot. The number of abandoned embryos in the country’s fertility clinics could be in the millions, claims a recent NBC News report. According to Christine Allen, a fertility doctor who runs a consulting business called Elite IVF, most clinics fertilize far more eggs than they plan to use when performing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). “You see [some women] having 40, 50 or 60 eggs retrieved in a cycle and the...

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The Life of the Mother Lie

October 2019 – Article 2:    Let’s begin by stating a medically proven fact: abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother. Despite adamant claims by abortion advocates, thousands of OB-GYNs worldwide have affirmed that there is no situation in which the direct, intentional killing of a pre-born child is of any medical benefit to the mother. Aside from being unnecessary, it says the mother’s life is more important than her child’s and totally denies the Personhood of the pre-born....

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From Personhood to Whateverhood

October 2019 – Article 1:    Billionaire Elon Musk fears God’s greatest creation—humanity—is close to becoming mentally obsolete and will be pushed aside by artificial intelligence (AI). His answer? Quickly develop a process to link your brain to a computer, possibly creating medical advances as well as enhancing human performance. Musk also claims it eventually may be possible for people to “upload [themselves] into a new ‘unit’ when they die.” If successful, making us half human and half...

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That’s Not My Baby

September 2019 – Article 1:    Anytime we mess with God’s plan for procreation, things can go wrong—terribly wrong. When using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), couples often don’t get what they paid for. Worse, in far too many instances, “excess” embryos are misplaced, used for life-ending research or destroyed. Destroying, losing, or otherwise mistreating babies at this stage of development shows a total disregard for the Personhood of every single human life. IVF is a booming business. The...

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Murder Masquerading as “Assisted Suicide”

September 2019 – Article 2:    Ironies are so deceptively subtle, they sometimes go unnoticed. Here’s one that should have been glaringly obvious, due to the profound tragedy involved… September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day and is celebrated in countries around the world, including the United States. Sponsored by the World Health Organization, it is intended to raise awareness that suicide can be prevented. At the same time, support for the expansion of assisted suicide continues to...

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Who Needs Sex?

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...

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