Stem Cell Research and the Christian

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Stem Cell Research and the Christian
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Power to Influence

• MO - Michael J. Fox goes to work in election
• IA - Allows SCR obtained from human cloning
• IL - Banned human cloning but allows Embryonic
  SCR
• MI - Authorized all types of stem cell research

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Defining Stem Cell Research

• Stem cells - the cells from which all other
  cells/organs are made
• Embryonic stem cells - form all the parts of the
  body theyre undifferentiated
• Somatic/adult stem cells - found in and repairs
  specific tissues throughout the body theyre
  differentiated

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• Stem cells, directed to differentiate into
  specific cell types, offer the possibility of a
  renewable source of replacement cells and tissues
  to treat diseases including Parkinsons and
  Alzheimers diseases, spinal cord injury, stroke,
  burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis,
  and rheumatoid arthritis

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Where Are Stem Cells Obtained?
Objection / NO Objection

1. Somatic/adult SC - harvested from children thru
   adults without harm
2. Cadavers - unpleasant but available
3. Abortions, with consent
4. Invitro fertilization leftovers, frozen, 4-5 days
   old, harvesting kills the embryo
5. Cloning - making embryos for destruc.
6. Amniotic SC - fluid, placenta, umbilical

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We dont object to all stem cell research.
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• Shall we create life so that we can destroy it?
• Shall we decry abortion and then use the product
  of it?

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Objections to our Objections

• Cloning and testing have been going on for years
• Were losing the brain drain to Europe

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Matthew 1037

• "He who loves father or mother more than Me is
  not worthy of Me and he who loves son or
  daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

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Proverbs 1434

• Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a
  disgrace to any people.

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Objections to our Objections

• Cloning and testing have been going on for years
• Were losing the brain drain to Europe
• My sister has diabetes, my mother has alzhiemers,
  my father has heart

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Romans 38

• And why not say (as we are slanderously reported
  and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil
  that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

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Objections to our Objections

• Cloning and testing have been going on for years
• Were losing the brain drain to Europe
• My sister has diabetes, my mother has alzhiemers,
  my father has heart
• Leftover invitro embryos are going to be
  destroyed anyway

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Isaiah 520-21

• Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil
  Who substitute darkness for light and light for
  darkness Who substitute bitter for sweet and
  sweet for bitter!21. Woe to those who are wise in
  their own eyes And clever in their own sight!

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Three Principles to Live With

• Life begins at conception.
  There is no place between conception and birth to
  start life.

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James 226

• For just as the body without the spirit is dead,
  so also faith without works is dead.

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Galatians 115

• But when God, who had set me apart even from my
  mother's womb and called me through His grace,
  was pleased

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Luke 115

• "For he will be great in the sight of the Lord
  and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will
  be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his
  mother's womb.

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Psalm 13913

• For You formed my inward parts You wove me in my
  mother's womb.

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Jeremiah 14-5

• Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,
• 5. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
  And before you were born I consecrated you I
  have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

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Three Principles to Live With

• Life begins at conception.
  There is no place between conception and birth to
  start life.
• Taking innocent life is sinful.
  This moral law pre-dates the 10 com- mandments
  yet ESCR demands it.

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Genesis 95-6

• "Surely I will require your lifeblood from every
  beast I will require it. And from every man, from
  every man's brother I will require the life of
  man.
• 6. "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood
  shall be shed, For in the image of God He made
  man.

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Proverbs 616-17

• There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes,
  seven which are an abomination to Him
• 17. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that
  shed innocent blood,

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Three Principles to Live With

• Life begins at conception.
  There is no place between conception and birth to
  start life.
• Taking innocent life is sinful.
  This moral law pre-dates the 10 com- mandments
  yet ESCR demands it.
• Potential good is a slippery slope. ESCR
  is one step closer to harvesting children for
  parts.

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1 Corinthians 46

• Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively
  applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so
  that in us you may learn not to exceed what is
  written, so that no one of you will become
  arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

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Everything that pertains to life and godliness is
given are you listening?