Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, (pictured), the archbishop of Johannesburg, has denounced biological colonialism whereby “Harvesting ovarian human eggs in Africa will help meet the needs of embryonic stem cell research in industrialised countries” in his presidential address to the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference who met last week. [Via John Smeaton]
Where the human embryos are gotten from is part of the ESCR story that is hardly mentioned. The South Korean scientist who published phony research on human cloning pressured women working for him to provide the eggs that he would fertilize and use for research. Also hardly mentioned is that the procedure to remove the eggs is not without danger for the women involved. So now we are using economic pressure to encourage women in Africa to donate their eggs. Who cares if they get Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome? I guess this is the new slavery. Import human eggs from Africa, fertilize them, and then kill them for research. The whip of the slave master was kinder than the tools of the scientist. A slave could hope for freedom or escape, a human embryo is just slaughtered in the hope of a better life for somebody else.
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Now, this is information that needs to be plastered throughout all areas that our African Americans can see the new slavery. This is so pathetic that I can’t even come close to understanding Obama at all, nix, nilch, nada. It’s an outrage.
You’d think this would be a totally obvious cause for feminists to pick up and run with…
Then again, that would require valuing women as women above the sacred cow of reproductive rights (and all emanations and penumbrae pertaining thereunto.)
What is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome?
In these days of cultural death as de rigueur and haute couture, it is all in how the process is marketed. Harvesting eggs is the height of Élan extraordinaire, cretan!
In the dying remnants of western civ, up is down, left is right, and death is life. Viva el Normal.
In addition to being economic slavery, this is racism and eugenics through and through.
Also racist is the repeal of the Mexico City Policy. You can better believe that none of the funds needed to subsidize abortions will be going to European and other industrialized nations.
It will be going to poverty stricken African (Kenyan), South American nations to eliminate their poor, deemed to be a drag on their economies.
Yes, but is anyone actually using African women as a source of eggs? Or is the bishop just theorizing that someone will because the women are poor and downtrodden already? I read the post from SPUC and it doesn’t mention anyone actually doing this.
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