Fovus on Family claims "fetus farming" on horizon

[rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>]

here is an example of how the religious right misleads:  from RAy

Fetal Farming Update
By Terry Phillips 

A disturbing update from a top pro-life organization points to a bio-tech 
industry intent on growing fetuses for body parts. 

One of the leading pro-life organizations in the country is warning that the 
appalling possibility of fetus-farming could be closer than we think. The 
reality of "fetus farming" is too grisly a concept for most people to get their 
minds around. Dan McConchie of Americans United for Life explains the term. 

"Basically, it's an idea that you're taking either the early human embryo, or a 
fetus, and using it for some sort of spare parts." 

Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life is afraid that's where we're headed. 

Elements of the big-tech industry are definitely moving towards "fetus farming" 
and Congress must act to prevent that before it's too late." 

A U-S Senate Bill would expand the opportunities for the bio-tech industry to 
clone-and-kill but Richard Doerflinger of the U-S Conference of Catholic 
Bishops says its state legislatures that are leading the way to Frankenstein's 
Castle. 

"The legislators will say 'well, that's crazy, nobody wants to do that;" then 
they'll also refuse to change the language so that they can't do that."

A case in point is already law in New Jersey. 

"They actually allowed researchers to now gestate a clone all the way up until 
birth at which point they have to terminate the life." 

The only reason to bring a fetus to term and then kill it is to obtain body 
parts. The question is how could lawmakers pass legislation that allows 
harvesting of even a cloned baby's tissues or organs? Richard Doerflinger 
thinks many of the legislators "are quite oblivious to what's going on." 

A U-S Senate bill authored by California's Diane Feinstein would supposedly 
limit cloning but National Right to Life's Johnson says it is only intended to 
blockade a long-delayed authentic cloning-ban from  






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