[Industrialblog,
May 27, 2005]
Hmm ...
By the time I logged on, I forgot what I wanted to blog. I've been meaning to put it up here for a while, too.
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Not early senility.
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Jebus I'm absent-minded. Okay, let's retrace our steps. A shrink friend of mine said if you go into a room and can't remember what you are there for, back out of it and try again. Supposed to trigger the brain's memory or some doohicky in the grey matter. All I know is it works. Over to the last Web site I was on ...
Oh yes. There it is. I know what it was.
Stem cells.
Don't understand the issue at all. Not sure I want to know.
Part of the problem is I don't understand the development of a human in those initial couple of days. That's probably why even though I'm ardently pro-life, I may not be as purely pro-life as I'm supposed to be. I'm more of a "fetal heartbeat — definitely no" — kind of pro-lifer. That's six weeks. Or brain activity, which is around there somewhere, too. In the first six weeks of gestation, I believe that we as a community can make a judgment call, state by state, about how to proceed.
A friend of mine believes first mitosis (I'm probably getting that wrong) is the salient moment, that once the unique DNA is prepared and rolled out, you have a human life. But I also hear that gazillions of embryos are spontaneously aborted in the first few days, and I don't think God would do ensoulment only to abort quite so much. But I could have that wrong, too. I don't know when the soul gets in there ... probably when there's brain activity. And for that, there has to be a brain of some kind. Brain and heart — no touch. Before that, let's talk.
Anyway, I hear "stem cells" and I just shut off because it seems to me all this stuff is at the embyonic level which requires a bioethicist.
My pro-life view no doubt will please no one. I dunno.
YMMV.
UPDATE: I totally disagree with this post, now that I wrote it.
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...
Not early senility.
...
Jebus I'm absent-minded. Okay, let's retrace our steps. A shrink friend of mine said if you go into a room and can't remember what you are there for, back out of it and try again. Supposed to trigger the brain's memory or some doohicky in the grey matter. All I know is it works. Over to the last Web site I was on ...
Oh yes. There it is. I know what it was.
Stem cells.
Don't understand the issue at all. Not sure I want to know.
Part of the problem is I don't understand the development of a human in those initial couple of days. That's probably why even though I'm ardently pro-life, I may not be as purely pro-life as I'm supposed to be. I'm more of a "fetal heartbeat — definitely no" — kind of pro-lifer. That's six weeks. Or brain activity, which is around there somewhere, too. In the first six weeks of gestation, I believe that we as a community can make a judgment call, state by state, about how to proceed.
A friend of mine believes first mitosis (I'm probably getting that wrong) is the salient moment, that once the unique DNA is prepared and rolled out, you have a human life. But I also hear that gazillions of embryos are spontaneously aborted in the first few days, and I don't think God would do ensoulment only to abort quite so much. But I could have that wrong, too. I don't know when the soul gets in there ... probably when there's brain activity. And for that, there has to be a brain of some kind. Brain and heart — no touch. Before that, let's talk.
Anyway, I hear "stem cells" and I just shut off because it seems to me all this stuff is at the embyonic level which requires a bioethicist.
My pro-life view no doubt will please no one. I dunno.
YMMV.
UPDATE: I totally disagree with this post, now that I wrote it.