I have said many times that we abandon the human embryo to the whims of researchers at our own peril. By protecting the human embryo, we protect all of us that are of the same species.
The uproar in Oregon about the state offering coverage for assisted suicide but not life-extending chemotherapy continues. Barbara Wagner was not the only one that was told that Oregon would pay for her to die, but not for her to live. Randy Stroup also received that same message.
So what does the Oregon assisted suicide debacle have to do with the protection of the human embryo? Well, I cannot lace it together better than Cal Thomas in his piece ,"The Price is (not) Right" in the Jamestown Sun:
It is difficult to pinpoint the precise beginning of the cultural tsunami that has devalued human life. Did it begin with the subjugation of women? Did it begin with slavery? The Nazis made their contribution with the Holocaust and Josef Mengele’s hideous human experiments. Surely unrestricted abortion added to the growing list of inhumanities.
Now we have the next wave. Randy Stroup is a 53-year-old Oregon man who has prostate cancer, but no insurance to cover his medical treatment. The state pays for treatment in some cases, but it has denied help to Stroup. State officials have determined that chemotherapy would be too expensive and so they have offered him an alternative: death...
How much is a human life worth? Body parts and bone marrow can fetch some pretty high prices, but a human life is more than the sum of its body parts. The reason this is important is that the federal government is now placing a price tag on individual lives and if government ever gets to run health care from Washington, bureaucrats will start making decisions similar to the one made for Randy Stroup.
"Body parts and bone marrow can fetch some pretty high prices" indeed. Once we start seeing one member of the human species as a valuable commodity that can be priced and torn apart for parts, we all look that way. Especially to the government:
According to The Washington Post, several federal agencies have come up with figures for the dollar value of a human life to analyze the costs and benefits of new programs they believe will save lives.
Saving lives is the announced intention, but if government gains the power to determine when a life is no longer “worth” saving and orders the plug to be pulled or the death pill to be administered, then what? This is the future of the socialized medicine that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party wish to impose on us.
Lets us never forget that it was the Oregon state-sponsored health care that told Barbara Wagner that she wasn't worth the price of the medication she needed and it was the private Big Pharma company Genentech that came to her aid by giving Barbara her chemo drugs at no charge.
Thomas leaves us with the same message I have been screaming at the top of my lungs for nearly 3 years:
When pro-lifers warned about the “slippery slope” more than three decades ago, they were dismissed as alarmists. Not anymore. Their prophecy is now being fulfilled.
Please! Let us put a stop to the out of control slide and see the human embryo as what it is: a member of the human species that has no price tag and cannot be destroyed for parts.
