Congress had already passed laws making it illegal to injure or destroy embryos for the purpose of research, but President Clinton devised an executive order recently which overturned that prohibition. Congress has not yet been able to pass another law to defend life in its earliest stages. Researchers are clamoring for stem cells which are found in embryos and which they believe hold the key to curing diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These same cells are found in abundance in the bone marrow of adults, but it is all a question of money. One of the main reasons public opinion has shifted so that most people oppose abortion has been the invention of new technology which lets us view the embryo inside the womb.
People can actually see that from very early on the unborn baby looks unmistakably human.
Babies in the womb can be seen moving about, yawning, sucking their thumbs, and jumping at sudden loud noises. Watching babies react to bright light outside the mother's body, startled at noises and try to get away from intrusive medical instruments, researchers have proved that these babies do have awareness of their surroundings and do feel pain. The awful abortion procedures, which involve cutting the babies to pieces or burning their skin off with salt solutions, began to seem horrible to all but the most radical abortion proponents. It is much harder though, and perhaps impossible, to get public sympathy for embryos in the earliest days of life, when the new human being is only a mass of cells. This concept though, has little meaning for those who do not honor God as creator of life or believe that human beings have an immortal soul.