American Life League: 'Choice' In Federal Regulations Still Means Death For Human Embryos 8/27/2002
From: Erik Whittington or John Roney of the American Life League, 540-659-4171, ewhittington@all.org or jroney@all.org WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The following statement by Judie Brown, president of American Life League on HHS guidelines for promoting frozen embryo adoption, was released today: The Feds want to make sure that parents of "surplus" human embryonic children who choose to give them up for adoption have the opportunity to do so. The operative word, of course, is "choose." The Department of Health and Human Services, acting on Congressional authorization, has issued guidelines for organizations interested in raising public awareness regarding the availability of frozen human embryos for adoption. On the surface this is a most laudable project, but there is a hitch. The regulations, published in the Federal Register, make it clear that it is the parents of these human embryonic children who will make the decision, and they have options regarding what to do with those human embryos they do not wish to have placed in the mother's womb. The parents can allow someone to adopt them or offer the "leftover" human embryos for research or keep them in a deep freeze. These human embryonic babies become commodities -- just like groceries -- that can be used now, given away, sacrificed to research or stored. It is a known scientific fact that every single human embryo is an individual person at fertilization. As such, there is no justifiable reason to rob a single one of these children of life. Research kills them while cryopreservation (freezing) suspends them in time, making the chance of their survival less likely, even if the parents choose to allow someone else to adopt them. Therefore, the solution is to end the violent cycle of in vitro fertilization, which has already resulted in many more deaths than anyone really knows. For the infertile couple there are other options, options that do not devalue the intrinsic dignity of the human person. For a detailed analysis, go to http://www.all.org/issues/ivf2.htm. American Life League is the nation's largest pro-life educational organization with more than 375,000 supporting families. |