Fetus Disrespect

Well another person opens their mouth and totally sticks their foot in it. Which I must admit I share that same disease but still the twisted thinking of this individual just begs to be pointed out so that we can learn and hopefully tweak our own ways of thinking to be a bit more consistent.

It was an AP story that appeared two days ago by Robert Jablon Two Women Sought in Theft of Fetus who told of the theft of a 13 week old fetus from an exhibit at the California Science Center. Two women were caught on tape taking the preserved fetus from the exhibit. So far no one has been apprehended nor is there any indication of motive. I wonder if these women are fanatical evangelical/Catholic Christians who will be publicly destroyed and I most assuredly brought up on felonies of the worst kinds. Hay who knows maybe even under some statute of the law they will be classified as terrorists. We’ll just have to wait and see. But here is a quote from the director of the Institute who preserved this fetus, “"We are deeply concerned and disappointed by the theft of this invaluable and irreplaceable specimen," Angelina Whalley, director of the Institute for Plastination, said in a statement. “How can somebody do this ... it's such a disrespect," she said.

Ok, I think it is rather gross what these two women did regardless of their motives and so forth but the fact should not escape us that the specimen that is spoken of by this director is a human being. I don’t care how long people try and rearrange the vernacular a human is a human is a human. The euphemism of calling it a fetus or a specimen is down right dishonest.

To be fair I do not know the circumstances of the institute obtaining this specimen nor does it really matter to me. In the name of science, extenuating circumstance ignored, this human child should never have been preserved and then displayed anywhere much less in the California Science Center. Tell me Angelina where is the dignity in that. You claim it was disrespectful for the women to steal this specimen. Whom did they disrespect? Your institute? The public? The Science Center? The child? Oh well maybe if some respect was shown for the child before you turned it into an exhibit this wouldn’t even be a matter for me to write about. I can only hope and pray that your institute will truly live by your words and that this specimen will remain irreplaceable.

Peace.