The descent of man from his once-exalted position as a unique being created in the image of God to an accident in an impersonal universe has been extraordinarily fast. When moral absolutes are sucked out of society, nothing is left to keep medical technology from cutting, probing, experimenting, even killing, except a vague and sentimental disgust. The late Walker Percy looked at the implications of a soulless technology in one of his last books, The Thanatos Syndrome. The time is the mid-1990s. AIDS patients have been quarantined.
Suicide is the top killer of teenagers.
Technology has progressed, but the world remains the same. At these centers you can quickly and conveniently dispose of young and old alike if they become unwanted. The failure of this president to impose morality in one category of life weakens his ability to impose it in any other. Any embryo, given the right circumstances, has the potential to develop into a fully formed baby. By allowing experiments on the youngest members of the human family, we remove another section of the protective ring around all of us, diminishing all of us.