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…He’s probably trying to decieve you. Cardinal O’ Brien, Roman Catholic Archbishop in Scotland speaks of “Frankenstein” experiments and “hideous practices” over the Government’s hybrid embryo bill, seeking to provide a legal framework for research to go ahead. It’s quite easy, and Christians are long known for taking the easy way out, to instantly assume these mad scientists in their darkened labs making nightmarish abominations behind closed doors. Take it away, Mr. O’ Brien:

“He is promoting a bill allowing scientists to create babies whose sole purpose will be to provide, without consent of anyone, parts of their organs or tissues.”

This is the deception the Christian agenda wants you to believe. It isn’t just deception, it’s bare-faced lies. They think you’re stupid.

The facts of the case, unfortunately for them, are rather simple even for the layman to understand. Scientists need a specific type of cell called a stem cell for research into cures and treatments for horrible diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, they also provide insights into cancer and numerous other ailments. Unfortunately for us, these medical researchers are limited in their supply of stem cells; Stem cells come from human embryos before they’ve actually become a foetus and are still just a mess of cells chugging away with no life of their own. This has drawn ethical fire in the past but has generally been allowed to proceed.

What the scientists want to do is create their own embryos, free from the ethical ground of having to destroy what could (but never would have) become a human foetus. They do this by taking an animal egg cell, any mammal will do, and inserting the nucleus from a human cell, perhaps a skin cell. The resulting cell is a human egg cell, but created from an animal egg cell wrapping. It’s no more a human-animal hybrid than someone wearing a wooly jumper is a hybrid of human and sheep.

This is the entire truth. The animal cell provides the ‘cell machinery’ (the wooly jumper) while the human nucleus provides the instructions of what to do and gives the cell its identity. This cell will then proceed to develop as any other egg cell would and produce stem cells which the researchers can then harvest and use to progress in their understanding of various horrible diseases. These cells would never be brought “to term” or implanted in a mother. Even if they were, it would essentially be human cloning (which is banned) and the resulting child would be entirely human, not some deformed monstrosity. Scientists have no interest in cloning humans, they just want the pre-embryonic stem cells.

It is this research into Parkinson’s Disease, into Alzheimers Disease, into cancer that the Christians hate so much. If people aren’t dying and suffering, why would they turn to their God?