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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91a.941121133309.20655K-100000@christa.unh.edu>, "The Black \"Ken-ight\"" <wkl@christa.unh.edu> writes:
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|> 
|> On 9 Nov 1994, Martin H. Booda wrote:
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|> [cutting out a discussion of whether it is right to wish Alzheimer's 
|> disease on former President Reagan]
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|> > |> 
|> > Yeah, I thought this was vindictive at first; and then I remembered that ol'
|> > RR was responsible for delaying fetal tissue research into possible cures for
|> > degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's for eight years.  And now they
|> > say that the Pope may have Parkinson's.  And to think I used to believe that
|> > there was no Just God...
|> > -- 
|> There is a Just God.  That you don't believe in Him shows.
|>      I bet that Reagan and John Paul II will never retract their 
|> positions, and even on their deathbeds will not recant their positions, 
|> even if they were offered the opportunity to retroactively allow the 
|> research -- even if they were guaranteed that they would be cured from 
|> their selling out their beliefs.
|>      Of course, the price would just be their souls, ......
|>      I haven't heard anything about Pope John Paul II having 
|> Parkinson's.  I hope it's not true, but if he does, I'm sure that he will 
|> never claim that he should have consented to have babies harvested to 
|> help him live.
|>      We call that integrity, faith, and loyalty to principle.  It's 
|> admirable and honorable.  Regrettably, they are going to be made 
|> martyrs.  But we won't betray their cause just because they are lost to us.
|> 
|> --Ken
|> 
That's their choice, and their fate.  But even if (assuming you're prescient),
in the agony of delerium which they likely face, they _don't_ retract their
positions, integrity, faith, loyalty to principle and US$20.00 will do little
more than insure a few extra flowers on their graves.
     The real crime here is not the preventability of what may be happening
to them, but the fate of many better lives which they deemed expendable for a
rather inexplicably subjective principle.
     I have this nightmare.  My father is lying in a hospital bed, dying of
Parkinson's.  For some strange reason he is physically shrinking, and very
rapidly.  Reagan and the Pope are dressed in lab coats, looking through four
microscopes.  The slides under the microscopes contain samples of brain tissue,
indistinguishable to the layman.  RR & JPII look at the first sample.  "Post-
born tissue!  Donated by parents!  PASS!"  Reagan signs the sample, enacting it
into law; the Pope sprinkles it with Holy Water.  They go on to the next
'scope.  "Miscarriage!  Act of God!  PASS!"  They sign & sprinkle again.  On to
the next.  "Mugging!  Mother lived, fetus died!  Tissue miraculously intact!
PASS!"  Sign & sprinkle.  Finally, the last microscope.  "Abortion!  Against
Family Values!  Mortal Sin!  FAIL!"  By this time my father has shrunk down so
small that he is almost invisible to the naked eye.  Reagan says, "Hm.  It's
going to be difficult examining the patient, My Holy colleague."
     The Pope responds, "Yep.  Better get a microscope."

     Have a nice Martyrdom.
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