Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Baby Doomers

“Deciding when life begins is above my pay grade.”

After listening to this statement made by a particular presidential candidate as he responded to Rick Warren’s question about the beginning of life, I was reminded of an ethics class I took a couple of years ago at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Dr. Peterson was the professor and he gave a scenario of a burning hospital building where one hundred zygotes were kept safely frozen while one infant screamed in horror, choking from the smoke. He then asked, which one would you save, the screaming infant or the one hundred fertilized human eggs?

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