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Thank you, Joan, for taking human life seriously enough to be concerned with its undue wasting. Thank you for using reason to come to your conclusions. Thank you for the eloquent expression of your views. Thank you for concluding that we PWP's deserve to not be denied on the doorstep of hope. Life leads us to difficult choices sometimes. After a certain point, you just have to make your choice and move on. I wish you peace. Enjoy Spring! Rick McGirr Email: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Snyder" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:18 AM Subject: As many of you know... > I have been torn in two by the embryonic stem cell debate. I have > found myself waffling and playing the devil’s advocate…rather than > making a decision and sticking by that position. I think that I have > finally come to a realization that this is something that I must finally > take a stand on just to help me maintain some balance. > > First let me tell you that I am pro-life and that it really bothers me > to hear the words “pro-abortion” come out of anyone’s mouth. I do not > for a moment believe that anyone on this earth would go on record as an > abortion advocate. I have known too many young women who have been faced > with this overwhelming decision and I can tell you that not one of them > who went ahead with the abortion, in any way ever experienced anything > but guilt and remorse-I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone > would think of this agonizing situation as nice or even pleasant. > > Now that I have made that statement, I also resent the image of in-vitro > fertilized eggs as “frozen orphanages”- these are eggs that have been > artificially inseminated in a petrie dish and are left-overs that will > never make it to a mother’s warm and nourishing womb. > > And what I resent most of all is being made to feel like I am in a > position such as that faced by Sophie in “Sophie’s Choice.” That movie > has long haunted me, and kept me up many a night wondering how I would > have reacted to the Nazi that ordered her to make an “on the spot” > decision as to which of my children would be killed and which one would > survive. > > I have felt that struggle inside of me for years now-of trying to > resolve the dilemma that I faced: who would I choose??-my dear friends > who have Parkinson’s and who are getting worse before my eyes and > recently, beginning to die off one by one or the batches of faceless, > invisible to the human eye, clumps of cells that bear no resemblance to > a human being. > > I do not believe that a Loving and Caring God would put me into a > terrible situation where I would have to choose one or the other and I > believe that I have found the words that will help me to live with my > decision. Pope John Paul II said that we must respect life from the womb > to the tomb…I take that to mean from the natural beginning of life until > its’ end. And I do not believe that a byoclast artificially begun in a > dish and never destined to be transferred to the mother’s womb is life. > Sure it is the potential for life but so are eggs and sperm that are > washed away in our sheets daily. I can now say that I believe that life > is life and artificially inseminated eggs that are frozen with no > possibility of ever being implanted into a woman’s womb are just > artificially inseminated eggs that are frozen with no possibility of > ever becoming life. I truly hope that this will finally give me some > sort of peace from this indecision that is just making me sicker. > > -- > Joan Blessington Snyder 54/14 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm > “Hang tough……..no way through it but to do it.” > Chris in the Morning Northern Exposure > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn