If Embryos are Human then Fertility Clinics are Death Camps: Pro-abortion Columnist
By John Jalsevac
TORONTO, ON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion columnist writing for the National Post has followed the logic of pro-life arguments about embryonic stem cell research and concluded that, if true, then artificial reproduction techniques must also be considered murderous on the scale of genocide.
“In short, if embryos are human beings with full human rights, fertility clinics are death camps—with a side order of cold-blooded eugenics,” writes Kinsley in an article entitled Where’s the Logic? “No one who truly believes in the humanity of embryos could possibly think otherwise.”
Kinsley explains that in vitro clinics, in their efforts to produce a successful pregnancy, always create numerous embryos, ultimately selecting the best and destroying the rest. Thus not only is murder involved, as thousands of embryonic human beings are destroyed in fertility clinics, but also eugenics, as only the healthiest embryos are selected for implantation.
“In any particular case, fertility clinics try to produce more embryos than they intend to implant. Then…they pick and choose among the candidates, looking for qualities that make for a better human being…If the fertility clinic rejects you, you get flushed away—or maybe frozen until the day you can be discarded without controversy.”
The only logical conclusion, he says, “is that if embryos are human beings, the routine practices of fertility clinics are far worse—both in numbers and in criminal intent—than stem-cell research.”
Despite Kinsley’s logical clarity in linking the practices of artificial reproduction technologies and embryonic stem cell research, however, he quickly reveals his intellectual isolation in his leftist ideologies and his general ignorance of the pro-life movement. He continues on to state about the practices of fertility clinics that, “no one objects, or objects very loudly.” From this apparent silence he infers that pro-life advocates are inconsistent, and thereby calls into question the sincerity of the pro-life belief that the embryo is a human being with all the same human rights as any other human being. If pro-lifers—he indicates—don’t even believe in the humanity of the embryo, then it must not be.
In addition to Kinsleys’ failure to address the substance of the question, which is the humanity of the embryo, Kinsley’s argument is suspect on account of his erroneous belief that there is societal consensus on the harmlessness of artificial reproduction.
The Vatican, for one, has consistently and vociferously condemned in vitro fertilization, and Catholics who obtain IVF treatments do so at the pain of serious sin, and possible excommunication.
Since its inception LifeSiteNews.com has published hundreds of articles revealing the truth about in vitro fertilization—that it results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children annually, and opens itself up to eugenic abuses. (http://www.lifesite.net/features/invitro/)
"Playing God by creating humans in petri dishes is simply wrong," American Life League president Judie Brown has been quoted as saying, echoing the belief of the pro-life movement the world over. "The pro-life movement needs to address the evils of in vitro fertilization with the same diligence with which we denounce all other forms of abortion."
If this guy didn't know that we pro-lifers do consider IVF to be extremely wrong, then maybe we're not doing a good enough job of putting our word out. Yeah, maybe the columnist hadn't done his research, but maybe we just aren't making enough noise.
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