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A MAN WITH A MEMORY LOOKS AT FROZEN EMBRYOS


The embryos that researchers want to use for stem cell research are frozen fetuses. They were stored by desperate couples who wanted to be sure that they could bring them to term if they could not have natural children.

Some of these couples were later able to carry their own children to term due to medical treatments. These couples have no use for the embryos they stored, so scientists want to use them for research that could make the crippled walk and cure other invalids.

The extreme branch of the pro-life movement wants the embryos simply destroyed.

Last week, a group of witnesses came to Congress to argue for this extreme pro-life position. They were couples who could not have children themselves, so they had ADOPTED some of those frozen embryos and brought them to term. They had the babies in their arms before the committee to show that, if the fetuses were brought to term, they became real babies.

Everybody already knew that, of course, but they showed their babies to counter the potent argument in favor of stem cell research.

Crippled, dying and desperate people who want embryonic stem cell research to save them go in front of the committee. They argue in person that they are more important than some abstract rights of frozen embryos.

To counter this, the only thing those against embryonic stem cell research could do was bring in these babies developed from frozen embryos.

But I remember when the same kind of people who now oppose stem cell research WERE TRYING TO GET THE FREEZING OF EMBRYOS OUTLAWED. They said that, since some of the embryos would have to be destroyed, they shouldn't be created in the first place.

So if their side had won back then, THE PEOPLE SITTING IN FRONT OF THE COMMITTEE WITH HEALTHY BABIES TO ARGUE THEIR SIDE WOULD NOT HAVE THOSE BABIES!!!

But now, as always, those who have a religious knee-jerk against medical advances are claiming, in effect, that they were always for the right of people to freeze embryos in case they could not have natural children. As always, they ignore the position they originally took.

They did the same thing after they opposed dissection, smallpox vaccination, blood transfusions, and practically every other advance in medical history.

 

 

 

LEFTIST YOKELS AND YAHOOS


Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin was a liberal Democrat. But his big sales pitch was what he called The Golden Fleece Award. Each time, he would give an award to government agencies or grant recipients who had fleeced the public out of a lot of money.

At first The Golden Fleece Award was really good. But it took a lot of work to find out the details of something stupid in one of the Federal agencies every week. So soon Proxmire's staff found a way to get out of all that work. They found a cheap shot that required no effort.

Instead of digging for a real scandal, they looked at the list of National Science Foundation grants that came out each week. They just found a title that sounded absurd. They gave the Golden Fleece to one of those grantees.

Soon they just picked any title that was hard to understand and called that research project a waste of money.

This was easy, and this was evil. To a true yahoo, a real ignoramus, ALL scientific research sounds useless. Someone getting a million dollars to study ocean floor life seems, if you just say it that way, to be a true waste of money. But some of that research is now promising an advance in cancer research.

The result was that Proxmire attacked some of the most productive scientific research that has ever been done. All real scientists despised him, and for excellent reason.

What if Proxmire had been a conservative Republican instead of a liberal Democrat? Liberals would have exposed this gambit instantly. They wold have ridiculed the "hayseed" who attacked great research because the yahoo voters who elected him couldn't understand the titles.

I explained this to a yuppie liberal the other day, and he simply could not take it in. To somebody in the media or a fashionable yuppie liberal or a respectable conservative, a liberal simply cannot be an ignorant yahoo. A liberal Democrat like Proxmire can "make mistakes" or be "too idealistic," but he cannot just be an ignorant, blind rube the way a right-winger can.

So my liberal buddy honestly could not take this in, really! That is what I call hypnotic leftism.

Once during the Cold War, I crossed the Hungarian border on a bus that had some hippies on it. The Hungarian border, like all the borders of the Democratic Peace-Loving People's Republics, had guards standing at the border with automatic weapons to kill anybody who tried to escape from their Workers' Paradise.

On the Hungarian People's Republic side of the border there was a broad dirt ditch cut out. It had signs with the skull and crossbones that are the universal sign for land mines on it.

I knew that the hippies were always saying that the West was at least as bad as the Communists. To them, the Communists were the good guys. I could not imagine how someone could go over a murderous border like that, a prison wall around a country, and imagine the Reds were the good guys. So I watched the hippies to see how they would react to the ditch and guns and land mines and the skull and cross bones.

Their reaction as we got to the Hungarian border was amazing. They simply looked straight ahead. THEY DIDN"T SEE THE MINE WARNINGS OR GUARDS OR THE MURDEROUS DITCH THEY WERE CROSSING OVER! It was as if they went into a trance and came to after we crossed the border.

Hypnotic leftism really is a form of hypnosis. To a hypnotic leftist, a rightist like Hitler or Franco is a dictator. Leftists may make "idealistic errors," but no leftist is ever called a yahoo or a tyrant or an ignoramus.

We must start calling them that and backing it up.

 

 

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