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Text Box: Not to be outdone, Buffet’s wife’s foundation, the Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation, also supports pro-abortion advocacy. Gates and Buffet are not humanitarians. They are murderers because anyone who provides the means by which murder is committed with the intention that murder be committed via those means, is a murder. And both have not only advocated such murders but have also provided the means by which the murders are committed. Stem-cell method of murder: In a recent newspaper column Cokie (Roman Catholic?) and Steven Roberts condemned President Bush because on the matter of stem-cell research he, “takes a theological view, not a scientific one,” like Senator Bill First. They also stated, “The president lives in a world of absolutes, and refuses to recognize that most moral choices are not between good and evil, but between competing virtues.” (The Times-Picayune, Friday, July 21, 2006, page B-7). (Incidentally, Cokie Roberts is the daughter of deceased Representative Hale Boggs and retired Representative and Clinton administration Ambassador to the Vatican Lindy Claiborne Boggs. She should know better. - Ed.) Moral choices are not what Mr. and Mrs. Roberts state. Moral choices are making the choice to obey God or do something else. Killing unborn children, no matter what their state of development, is never a virtue. The Roberts column is a form of lie through mis-direction which is also used by those who support stem-cell research and others who support killing without restriction. A new method of obtaining stem-cells for research has been devised by the California biotech company Advanced Cell Technology (and possibly others), and reported in the British journal, Nature. Advanced Cell Technology and embryonic stem-cell research advocates imply that in this method the development of an human embryo is

Text Box: halted, a single cell removed, and that cell used to create a stem-cell line, while the remainder of the embryo is intact. “Or so they say.” In actuality five or six cells are removed from the embryo to improve the odds of success. Removal of that many cells at such an early stage of development kills the embryo. But even if it did not, the process remains one of creating human life for the purpose of harvesting body parts, and as such is completely immoral. There are no competing virtues in embryonic stem-cell research. All the stem-cells necessary for all of the research desired by anyone can be obtained from afterbirth, from umbilical cord blood, which is very easy to obtain. Culling the yet to be born for defects: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is the scientific name for the procedure whereby the genes of an embryo are screened for those genes which cause or may indicate a propensity for certain diseases or conditions. It has been used for more than a decade by people using in vitro fertilization, as a means of screening out any babies with the potential for undesirable conditions which those ordering the tests call “defects”. It also is used to screen for certain genes which the individuals ordering the tests deem desirable. Thus hair and eye color, skin texture, facial composition, muscle development, and even brain organization and synaptic configuration, and even more, can be selected. At the present stage only as few of the “desirable” genes can be implanted, but this number quickly increases with rapid scientific advances. What has not changed is that those babies with undesirable genes are discarded, which is a politically correct way of saying they are killed, or frozen until someone forgets them and they are then thrown out with the trash - killed.

Text Box: The only opposition to this procedure and process other than moral opposition, is opposition by those who fear an increase in the “class divide” because the procedure, being extremely expensive, is available only to the rich or the financially well off. Checking your baby for genetic problems so the problems can be corrected as early as possible is not playing God. But choosing your child’s physical properties is playing God and will lead to there being a group of people who deem themselves to be genetically superior to all others. This practice will, in all probability, continue, since many humans believe what ever they want is proper and what ever they do is what should be done because they are who they are. This will lead to struggle, and even war, between normal people and the genetically designed. It also kills babies. Murder Plan B: Calling Plan B a health care measure, proponents of abortion applaud the FDA approval of Plan B. Plan B is a “morning after” - after engaging in sexual intercourse - procedure composed of two drugs taken after sexual intercourse. It may inhibit fertilization, but it works by inhibiting implantation by altering the endometrium - in plain language the womb will not accept the baby (called a fertilized egg or zygote) being attached to it. Proponents deny it is an abortion drug because the baby never becomes attached to its mother’s womb. But the baby is killed. +++

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