Scientists are calling it a pioneering DNA breakthrough – a Frankensteinian development where material from skin cells are transformed into human eggs capable of being fertilized and turned into human embryos.
What this means is scientists creating a baby without the need of a mother.
Sadly, it’s not merely theoretical. It’s already taken place at a laboratory inside the Oregon Health and Science University.
“It is very preliminary work at this stage,” explained Dr. Paul Amato, a reproductive endocrinologist and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the school.
However early in the process, the frightening turn is yet one more evil and wicked manifestation of what happens when you try and detach God’s perfect institution of one-man, one-woman marriage from procreation.
Scientists are trying to put a positive spin on the news, especially appealing to the sympathies of those struggling to conceive a child.
“If it were to be successful, it would offer hope for couples and people suffering from infertility, particularly older women who have run out of eggs,” observed Dr. Amato.
“In theory, the technique could result in a limitless number of eggs,” she stated. “The skin cell DNA however can come from anyone, even if they personally don’t have any eggs or remaining eggs – older women, women after cancer treatment, people born without eggs, men.”
And there you have it – the true motivation and energy behind the emerging technology.
Dr. Amato claims, “A same-sex male couple could potentially have a child genetically related to both partners.”
If the prospect of enslaving a child to growing up in life without a biological mother doesn’t sadden or burden you, then you’re obviously not paying attention to facts.
In addition to the countless frightening aspects of lab engineered human beings, the absence of a mother in a young person’s life are significant and consequential. The social science shows growing up without a mother leads to a greater risk of emotional problems, increased risk of drug abuse, compromised emotional self-regulation, lower self-esteem and lower educational attainment.
Mothers are more than egg donors – they’re everything in the life of a child.
The unparalleled selfishness driving this craze is what’s behind Katy Faust’s organization, Them Before Us. The non-profit “strives to put children before adults in every conversation about marriage and family.”
In other words, it’s not about what the “parent” wants but rather what’s in the best interest of the child.
On a recent podcast, Katy wisely noted, “The baby-making industry and the baby-taking industry are two sides of the same child-commodifying coin.”
The lab process in question is called “mitomeiosis” and is a version of cloning. The team in Oregon produced 82 functional eggs, seven of which were developed into embryos. All of them had chromosomal abnormalities.
Sadly, scientists are now back in the lab and trying to modify and make adjustments in an effort to create healthy babies without the need of biological mothers.
Even Mary Shelly, the famed novelist best known for writing Frankenstein, might well find this current narrative both horrifying, mortifying and moral sense-defying, especially for non-fiction.
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