According to LifeSite News, the creator of Dolly the cloned sheep has suggested using dying people for dangerous experiments involving embryonic stem cells. This is the slippery slope we're rapidly descending. Society has devalued human life so much that a researcher wants to make lab rats out of dying people.

Human beings are NOT a commodity. Each human being has an infinite value as an individual. There are two major problems with this researcher's idea. First, embryonic stem cell research always kills an innocent human being. An embryo is a stage of human life just as an adult is a stage of human life. We cannot experiment on the embryo because someone has a hypothesis that such experimentation MIGHT one day help other people. Furthermore, IF such a procedure ever proved beneficial (to date, there have been NO benefits from embryonic stem cell research --- just hype from the Culture of Death), it would ALWAYS require the killing of an innocent human being. We cannot kill one human being to allegedly "help" another human being. Embryonic stem cell research is yet another fruit of abortion: devaluing human life. It attempts to justify killing the most innocent and most vulnerable in our society.

Second, as to the unique subject of this ridiculous idea, this devalues born people. It implies that once someone is dying, they serve no purpose other than to be a "test bed" for scientists. Dying people should be surrounded by love and kindness. They should be made comfortable and be spiritually prepared as best as possible by fallen human beings for entrance into eternity. Hopefully by the time it comes, they will have made peace with God and be able to eventually enter eternal union with God. Their final days should not be spent as "lab monkeys" being subject to experiments which do nothing but employ researchers.

Some people submit to experimental treatments with the intent of saving their own lives. The morality of these treatments depends on the case. But still, this is very different from experimentation which will definitely NOT save the life of the person on which the experiment is being conducted.

The NAZIs conducted evil experiments on some of those who were sent to concentration camps. They "justified" this because they expected the prisoners of the concentration camps would be killed anyway. When a scientist can suggest that we use people for dangerous experiments "because they're going to die anyway," we must ask if society has advanced at all from the barbarism of the NAZIs? Society has not. All society has managed to do is put this barbarism in a pretty package of so-called "compassion." Society has also managed to brainwash most people into accepting this as "compassion." For most of the others, society has managed to simply distract them.