Tuesday, June 14, 2005

ITALY: EMBRYOS = HUMANS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Italians voted this week that embryos are human beings.

According to the Christian Science Monitor report, the Roman Catholic Church finally got its pro-life message across to enough voters. They voted that “embryos (have the) status of ‘full human beings.’”

At the same time, Italy has become a pro-killing-womb-babies country. So how does this mesh? It appears like a contradiction. On the one hand, embryos are mortals. On the other hand, mortals in wombs can be murdered.

That gives the pro-killing-babies enthusiasts the chills. They fear that one of these days Italians will reverse their killing infants syndrome in favor of permitting actual humans in female bodies the right to live.

Of course, many consider the world a crazy place. Consider pockets of insanity that exist every day without prohibition. There are cockfights. There are baby killings in wombs. There are tortured foster children. There are religious people who claim the name “Christian” while molesting boys and girls. In some areas of the planet, there is a pile up of devilment.

That does not negate of course the pleasant scene, the nice people, the mannerly agenda and the life-saving program. So the world is just what realists have always known — the mix and match of crazy and sane.

One of the craziest and most horrific allowances is permitting babies conceived in female bodies to be wiped out of existence, tossed into trash cans, and hauled away as garbage. These are actual mortals. Yet in the mother’s body these infants are discarded — a most unmotherly deed. Yet it is overseen by people who refer to themselves as “doctors” and “nurses” and “caregivers.”

However, what these mortals are are ongoing Nazi-heads who kill daily for the aim of killing daily. They torture humans who are totally defenseless, locked inside a womb, and at the mercy of stabbing and scalding and slicing. These slayers are no less innocent than Saddam Hussein pushing mortals head first into shredding machines.

Therefore, when Italy passed a bill that declared embryos are humans, that was a major move in the direction of civilized milieu. May it increase, of course.

However, realists know that at the same time killing babies will mushroom elsewhere just as Muslim global murderers will lay low their own and non-Muslims in the name of deity.

It’s a crazy world in places and in certain times. But the Italian vote has moved the edge there on the side of sanity recognized.