Submitted October 5, 2004 The Holocaust of Human Stem Cell Research by Matushka Barbara Bruce

Humanity is observing (with amazingly neutrality) the premeditated 
massacre of innocent babies. People don't want to believe or understand 
that atrocities are being performed upon these helpless Innocents. The 
Victims, these pure sparks of life, are scientifically created human 
embryos for Stem Cell Research.

Artificially conceived outside the womb (the similar way sterile 
couples sometimes choose to reproduce) the baby grows to a desirable cellular 
stage. When he or she becomes a "blastocyst" they are then 
systematically murdered. Scientists savagely rip them apart by 
"harvesting" their embryonic stem, or "master" cells.

We are speaking of REAL human beings- not insentient blobs of cells, or 
lab rats! Wake up world!

Funding for embryonic stem cell research is greatly sought after by 
some scientists who believe this is the promised land, for treatment and 
cure of diseases! The extracted master cells from the human embryos can 
be "cultivated" into a plethora of various needed human cells, tissues 
and organs... a macabre "Body Parts Department Store".

Some religious and conservative organizations staunchly oppose this 
kind of research. Will we be strong enough to successfully deter this 
barbaric new science? The extreme "leftists" roll their eyes at us "extreme 
right-wingers." We, as Pro-Lifers, are accused of pushing science back 
into the "Dark Ages," by attempting to block funding for this heinous 
practice.

Abortion is already glossed over as an accepted way to dispose of an 
"inconvenient" human fetus. We, as a society are "aborting" our 
consciences in allowing this homogenized horror chamber to evolve further. Who 
in their right mind could even WANT a new brain-part, eye, lung, kidney, 
or heart-part that was cruelly extracted from another living human 
being, killed (irregardless of their biological "age") specifically for us?

How can we truly justify this tampering with nature? Things have gone 
too far. What is next on humanity's immoral "To Do" list ? 

One day there will be a Divine Reckoning for all nations. Where will we 
stand then? What will our answer be?

"Arise O God, Judge the earth, for to Thee belong, all the nations!" 
		-The Prokeimenon from Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday