This Month's The Lutheran Magazine has a Study Guide "Thinking Ethically"
Today I sent out an e-mail to see if anyone was interested in discussing this in the Adult Discussion Group Sunday. Since you who contribute most to this blog are otherwise committed when the Discussion Group meets, would any of you care to adress these issues? The Study Guide is a pdf file and I don't know how to append it to this blog, but if you will check your e-mail you will find it as an attachment.
Dave
1 comment:
Talk about opening a can of worms. Ambivalence is a good word to start with. Yes, it's great, use it to save the world. No, it's going to cause moral issues and problems. I'm going to find it difficult to approach this one alone. Sometimes it is helpful to hear others and then your own opinions become a little clearer.
However, I will say a few words.
1. The biggest issue to me is to what lengths people will go to to provide said embryos. Sex without meaning is rampant enough right now. Do we need to offer a way for people to make money with it as well? I can see the teenagers now. Let's have sex, get me pregnant, and then I'll sell the fetus for stem cells! "Abortions" will go thru the roof. CON
2. The stem cells are there, we know about them and they can save lives. Is it wrong not to use it? Isn't there a way to harvest them without coming across the bad side of humans. PRO
3. I feel more and more that each of us is put on this earth and we have to work around are faults, shortcomings, failures, and "bad luck". When we do this, we become better people (for the most part). If we use stem cells, are we not taking away are need to work to better ourselves? Or even worse, we do what we want without worrying about consequences and then get a "get out of jail free card".
Or let me put it this way. We have put so many poisons into everything in this world. We eat them, we bathe with them, we drink them, we breathe them. It's our fault! Cancers, infertility, freak diseases....it's all because of the other stupid things we do to this earth. Shouldn't we have a consequence? "We reap what we sow"
On the other hand (I told you I was ambivalent), God offers forgiveness. Is this our forgiveness? We've certainly put ourselves in a situation where we need help. Is he offering help thru stem cells? Is this HIS way of saying, you screwed up, but here's a way to fix it and keep living?
Obviously, I didn't get very far with this argument. I need others to bounce ideas off of. Respond, PLEASE!
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