Late tonight, when the skunk is asleep, spread some of your homemade bread all the way back into the woods. The skunk will awaken tomorrow morning, follow the bread trail and be gone forever. The woman did that, and the next morning she awakened and ran to the back porch and looked out then ran to the phone. One of the serious ethical dilemmas facing American medicine is the use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research. Some believe that at least some good should come from abortion on demand.
Abortion is a fact of life.
Let's not waste something worthwhile. The AMA, the American Diabetes Association, the National Parkinson's Institute, and a number of scientific organizations have supported the use of tissue obtained by abortion. However, for the Christian physician, serious questions arise as we think more deeply about the dilemma. I am referring to tissue from induced abortion by the volitional act of the mother. I see three major objections.