Commentary

Scientists Begin Human Experiments

Reports surfaced this week that a team of biologists in China have been conducting gene modification experiments on tiny humans. They are attempting to re-engineer the human race with an eye toward eradicating disease, aging and other maladies.

Numerous scientists, journalists and ethicists have raised a ruckus over the implications of a science in which the basic fabric of human identity could be permanently manipulated by people with an agenda or vision of a new world order. They are, of course, correct to do so. After all, what is being done by Professor Junjiu Huang, could potentially alter the human race by creating genetic traits which can become hereditary and, therefore, part of the general gene pool.

It doesn’t take much imagination to see what might go wrong with such a mad scientific endeavor.

What few are discussing, however, is the fact that Huang and his Chinese team are conducting these experiments upon human embryos.

He claims that these tiny humans are “non viable” – but that stretches credibility. If these embryos are alive, then they are already “viable” and fully human. And we know from the news reports that the tiny babies are very much alive.

So not only is the research objective inherently dangerous, the project is deeply flawed from a moral perspective because it requires experimentation upon human beings – who are then destroyed after Huang collects his data. There once was a consensus within the medical and scientific community that human experimentation – particularly experimentation without the consent of the subjects – was inherently evil; that consensus derived from the exposure of programs in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during WWII. Scientists like Huang would once have faced criminal prosecution for such abuse of human beings.

But we live in a world of great moral confusion. The pursuit of legalized abortion has produced an environment in which the civilized world no longer takes for granted the supreme dignity of the human person.

This story would be frontpage everywhere. But we don’t live in a world of reason, but of corrupted politics and growing hedonism.

Newspapers, television stations, schools and even baseball teams pay annual homage to “beating breast cancer”, raising millions of dollars to support outfits like Komen. But instead of racing to find a cure for breast cancer – how about we take note of science which gives us some big clues about how to avoid breast cancer in the first place?

The American College of Pediatrics has issued such a call to action – by highlighting a substantial body of scientific research demonstrating that there is a causal linkage between breast cancer and abortion. The group calls attention to a recent study by Dr. Rebecca Johnson, as well as mega studies in China, Romania and India demonstrating that breast cancer epidemics are directly related to increasing rates of abortion.  In fact, there are now something like 57 studies, including at least one by the World Health Organization, demonstrating a linkage between abortion and breast cancer.

Solid research also demonstrates that the more abortions a woman undergoes, the greater the risk of developing breast cancer.

You ask how? What does abortion have to do breast cancer?

Dr. Jane Anderson, one of the Board members of the American College of Pediatricians, explained to Breitbart News last week:

“Induced abortion, prior to 32 weeks’ gestation, increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer, especially if that abortion occurs before a woman has experienced a full term pregnancy. Increased estrogen levels in early pregnancy prepare the breasts for breast-feeding; milk producing cells multiply rapidly. In an abortion, these calls are, in a sense, left in a state of suspended animation, ready to rapidly proliferate. Those cells are highly susceptible to carcinogens.”

Dr. Anderson also explained that a full-term pregnancy means breast cells are allowed to naturally mature, making them resistant to cancer over the course of a woman’s life.

But, of course, this is not revolutionary news. We have written in this column many times about this scientific research – and bemoaned the cruel and evil conspiracy to hide this information from women and girls because it threatens the profits of Planned Parenthood and the corrupted form of feminism they peddle.

In a rational world, we’d be racing to reduce the risks of breast cancer instead of soullessly demanding that more women are sacrificed on the altar of a deadly ideology.

Well… she’s back.

Hillary Clinton, gripped by inordinate ambition since high school, is certain that the world really needs her. She is once again foisting herself upon the public – now in a “Scooby Doo” van. Pity the poor folks of Iowa.

In making her public announcement, Clinton issued a press release in which she included the following claim to fame:

“From her mother’s own childhood – in which she was abandoned by her parents – to her work going door-to-door for the Children’s Defense Fund, to her battling to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program, [Hillary’s] fought children and families all her career.”

Media smurfs immediately censored the Clinton Campaign, looking askance at the poor proof-reading skills of those extraordinarily gifted and talented people surrounding Team Clinton. How could they let such a big goof in her first official press statement?

But we believe there is more here than meets the casual glance.

For it is indeed true that Hillary Clinton has fought against babies in the womb during her entire public career. Her blind support for abortion on demand makes her among the most dangerous political figures in America. In her view, no baby has any claim to life or our regard unless the mother finds it convenient.

Clinton’s insistence that abortion is at the core of womanhood has also served to wreck havoc on families and our culture.

So, inadvertently perhaps, Hillary has finally spoken the truth about herself and her vision for this nation.

Governor Butch Otter signed HB 154 this week – our legislation to better regulate chemical abortions in the state.

We are grateful for his continued support of the pro-Life movement, his defense of those most vulnerable babies in the womb.  Governor Otter has created a tremendous pro-Life legacy.

Thank you Butch.

The United Nations is working tirelessly to reduce the number of people living on the planet.

In a recent media interview, UN “climate chief” Christiana Figueres argued that we should all make “every effort” to cut down on the number of humans. Apparently one reporter pressed the elite activist on what methods she would support to achieve a “sustainable” human population. 

While Figueres declined to be publicly specific, the U.N. has long been pushed abortion, sterilization and birth control upon the world. International elites like Bill Gates and Al Gore are outspoken in demanding “fertility management” – i.e., killing preborn children – as an essential component of solving the “global warming crisis”.

Al Gore told a troupe of believers at the World Economic Forum that “empowering women and making ‘fertility management’ ubiquitously available … is crucial to the future shape of human civilization.”

Such blather has been a dominant message from the Left since at least the 1970’s – to rather amazing effect, given the fact that virtually none of the dire predictions from social engineers and pseudo-scientists have materialized over those decades. Still the babies are being killed. Families are becoming smaller, and even more rare. 

When one begins to see the connections behind the agendas of organizations like the U.N., the environmental movement and players like Bill Gates, we can better appreciate the fact that the fight to protect preborn children from their evil clutches is also a fight for the survival and dignity of each of us. Human beings are not some kind of virus to be cleansed from the earth.

I had the opportunity to be in the House State Affairs committee hearing on SB 1146, legislation sponsored by Sen. Curt McKenzie to help families dealing with severe epilepsy in chilren. It was some of the most heart-breaking testimony I have ever seen during my time working the Idaho Legislature.

McKenzie’s bill would provide some legal protections to parents who treat seizures with an oil extracted from the cannabis plant.  Parents testifying argued that other medical treatments had proven ineffective at arresting seizures, which can last for hours.

On the first pass through, the legislation died on a tied-vote, largely upon fears that this bill would open the door for legalizing marijuana in the state of Idaho. Such fears seem greatly misplaced, as this oil has no psychotropic side-effects. That sets it apart from the masquerade of “medical marijuana” – which has already created huge problems for states like Colorado and Oregon.

To blindly ban any by-product of a plant, simply because there are illegitimate and even evil uses to which that same plant or herb might be put, strikes me as unreasonable. After all, we read in Genesis that God gave mankind dominion over such matters for his care and well-being:

                “The God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and

                every tree that has fruit with seed in it….God saw all that he had made, and it was very

                good.”       (Genesis 1:29, 31).

Fortunately for the families suffering with this heart-rending situation, the State Affairs Committee reversed itself later this week. We commend those legislators who changed their votes: It was the compassionate and life-affirming thing to do.

                             – David Ripley

The Idaho House gave final legislative approval to HB 154, our legislation to restrict the practices of Planned Parenthood in dispensing this deadly drug. It should reach the Governor’s desk in a day or two.

The Abortion Industry fought this legislation strenuously – because it greatly interferes with their agenda of expanding abortion access across the state by circumventing the FDA regulations surrounding the use of RU-486. Throughout the public debate, Planned Parenthood has denied that our legislation involved any legitimate concern over a woman’s health. Instead, they tried to argue that they could be trusted to self-regulate.

The likes of Kermit Gosnell shows us what happens when government abdicates its responsibility for ensuring the health and safety of women and girls who submit themselves to an abortion.

Planned Parenthood is certainly motivated by convenience and profits in its drive to create a “remote control” abortion access system across the nation. But they are also driven by ideology.

They are attracted to using RU-486 over surgical abortions because it advances the notion that abortion is nothing more than treating a headache with aspirin. That is why they fought so hard over the terminology of chemical abortions – preferring that the media call them “medication abortions” instead. 

Even their language is designed to deceive women and girls.

We are grateful to leaders like Rep. Tom Loertscher and Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll who stood tall this session to help us gain an important legislative victory.

And we are grateful to you, our readers and supporters for your prayers and participation in demonstrating that Idaho does, indeed, choose life.

The Iowa Supreme Court held a hearing yesterday on objections by Planned Parenthood to a ruling last year by the Iowa Board of Medicine that outlawed its new system of “remote control” abortions.

During the hearing, Planned Parenthood revealed that it had used its “web-cam” method to destroy the lives of over 7,000 babies in Iowa since 2008. For almost all of that period, the organization publicly denied that it was delivering abortion drugs without an in-person examination by a qualified physician.

Planned Parenthood claims that their experimental procedure is “safe” – yet the Board of Medicine determined otherwise, finding that the nation’s largest abortion provider violated community standards of care.

Planned Parenthood has already lost its appeal of the Board of Medicine rules in an Iowa district court.

A former manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic using the remote control protocol has announced publicly that employees who actually see the women considering abortion hold no medical degree(s) and undergo about two days of training on an ultrasound machine.

It is truly astounding how little regard Planned Parenthood has for the women and girls who come to them for help in sorting out difficult situations.