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(I fell behind on my blog reading, so I am just coming across it now.)  Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is both an eminent heart surgeon and Columbia Medical School professor \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eand\u003c/span\u003e a pop health celebrity and Oprah darling, told Michael J. Fox to forget about embryonic stem cells.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lDFJOzu9SyM\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowscriptaccess\" value\u003d\"always\"\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lDFJOzu9SyM\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess\u003d\"always\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDr. Oz said, \"I think the stem cell debate is dead.... The problem with embryonic stem cells is that ... it's very hard to control them, and they can become cancer.... In the last year we've made ten years of advancement\" on induced pluripotent stem cells.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEmbryonic stem cells have turned out to be wild horses.  They are \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003etoo\u003c/span\u003e flexible.  Induced pluripotent stem cells are recently developed technology that uses a patient's \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eown body cells\u003c/span\u003e. They do not cause an immune response in the patient and they do not require the killing of anyone, embryo or adult.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt turns out, in the stem cell debate, that you can have your cake and eat it too: you can have pluripotent stem cells, and you can have them ethically.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"color: rgb(102, 51, 0);\"\u003eAnimals and Catholics series will continue soon, I promise.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5813489507942316135-1469420314751373183?l\u003dginkgo100.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/feeds/1469420314751373183/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5813489507942316135\u0026postID\u003d1469420314751373183\u0026isPopup\u003dtrue","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/1469420314751373183"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/1469420314751373183"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/2009/04/embryonic-stem-cells-declared-probably.html","title":"Embryonic stem cells declared probably defunct — on Oprah"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ginkgo100"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871889955884253147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"10586589345248242200"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-2743149872708717149"},"published":{"$t":"2009-04-27T07:00:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-04-27T07:00:01.999-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"opinions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"clarifying the record"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blogs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"human rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rad trads"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"philosophy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"women's rights"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Extreme traditional Catholics and extreme patriarchy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"My sister \u003ca href\u003d\"http://milehimama.blogspot.com/\"\u003eMile Hi Mama\u003c/a\u003e gets a hat tip for pointing out a blog called \u003ca href\u003d\"http://talibanrising.blogspot.com/\"\u003eTaliban Rising\u003c/a\u003e.  This blog is about heretical, patriarchal ideas being promoted by \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ecertain\u003c/span\u003e radical members of the traditionalist Catholic movement (\"Rad Trads\").  As blogger Jeanette points out, these ideas delve into the realm of the distinctly non-Catholic (i.e., heretical) philosophy of \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_naturalism\"\u003ereligious naturalism\u003c/a\u003e.  (Before reading further, please be aware, if you are not already, that \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.leavethelightson.info/\"\u003eLeave the lights on\u003c/a\u003e is written by a woman.)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn her post \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://talibanrising.blogspot.com/2008/09/they-said-what.html\"\u003eWeaving the Mental Burqa\u003c/a\u003e,\" Jeanette (who writes with more clarity and spirit than I can manage here) quotes a few Rad Trad intellectual leaders, including Dr. Peter Chojnowski and the infamous \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.leavethelightson.info/2009/01/bishop-williamson.html\"\u003eBishop Richard Williamson\u003c/a\u003e.  Bishop Williamson's outrageous comments do not need to be refuted; they fairly refute themselves.  Dr. Chojnowski, on the other hand, writes with a style reeking of erudition and opaque scholarship, and I consider his work to be a fair target.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHe publishes a blog in which he reprints some of the articles he has written.  In the introduction to his recently posted article \"Our Lady as Woman and Warrior,\" he decries \"the various writers on the internet who insist on distorting everything I have to say about women.\"  I hope he does not consider this quote from that article to be a distortion:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\"On account of the fact that the 'lady,' in all of her various aspects and roles, is commonly accepted to be \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ethe model of what all woman, on the natural level, ought to be\u003c/span\u003e. Just as the masculine ideal is one of being a 'master'....\" (emphasis added)\u003c/blockquote\u003eIt certainly sounds like much of this writer's philosophy is based on religious naturalism.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI do not mean to say, as some feminists do, that men and women are exactly the same (clearly they are not), nor that mothers and fathers do not have duties particular to their respective roles in the family (clearly they do).   But as Jeanette points out, God's plan for men and women is not ordered primarily toward their sex, but rather toward Christ.  Our duties arise not from our gender, but from our specific roles in the service of God.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTo quote Dr. Gyula Mago, in the article \"Feminism as Antichurch\" in the \u003ca style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\" href\u003d\"http://www.angelusonline.org/\"\u003eAngelus\u003c/a\u003e, \"[Woman] is subject to man, but not because he is the end for which she exists.\"  The \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eAngelus\u003c/span\u003e is a traditionalist publication; this quote is indicative of the fact that the naturalist heresy is not completely pervasive in the traditionalist movement, only in a small number of Rad Trads.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eContrast this statement with the following from Dr. Chojnowski's article \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://drchojnowski.blogspot.com/2006/02/flesh-of-my-flesh.html\"\u003eFlesh of my Flesh\u003c/a\u003e\":  \u003cblockquote\u003e\"\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:100%;\"\u003eIt will be my contention that women have their being \u003cb style\u003d\"\"\u003eas women\u003c/b\u003e actualized only through their relationship with men. \u003cb style\u003d\"\"\u003eWomen\u003c/b\u003e \u003cb style\u003d\"\"\u003eneed men in order to be truly women. Men, however, do not need women\u003c/b\u003e \u003cb style\u003d\"\"\u003ein\u003c/b\u003e \u003cb style\u003d\"\"\u003eorder to be truly men.\u003c/b\u003e ... Every convent has its father confessor and the Eucharistic Bridegroom.\" (emphasis original)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:100%;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThough Chojnowski states this is based on Thomistic philosophy, I think St. Thomas Aquinas would shudder to think of his clearly reasoned philosphy invoked for such confused, pop-psych drivel.  There are two errors in this quote.  The first is the statement that \"women have their being actualized by men.\"  Nowhere in Catholic theology does one find this sentiment.  The second error is the assertion that the presence of priests in convents somehow \"proves\" the first.  It proves nothing of the sort; what it proves is that women, like men, need \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eChrist\u003c/span\u003e.  The priest is there to bring Christ in the sacraments to the nuns of the convent, not to \"actualize their being,\" whatever that means.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMy experience suggests that women have as much of a civilizing influence on men as men have a stabilizing influence on women.  Even these observations are only broad generalities, as individual men and women vary widely in temperament.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDr. Chojnowski can continue writing to encourage men to find women to actualize into being.  (I imagine he does not intend women, being mentally inferior and subordinate to men, to read what he writes.  I also imagine he has not ever had a real conversation with an actual woman.) As for me and my blog, we will serve the Lord, not the male sex.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5813489507942316135-2743149872708717149?l\u003dginkgo100.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/feeds/2743149872708717149/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5813489507942316135\u0026postID\u003d2743149872708717149\u0026isPopup\u003dtrue","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/2743149872708717149"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/2743149872708717149"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/2009/04/extreme-traditional-catholics-and.html","title":"Extreme traditional Catholics and extreme patriarchy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ginkgo100"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871889955884253147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"10586589345248242200"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813489507942316135.post-948994925955138537"},"published":{"$t":"2009-04-14T07:00:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-04-14T07:00:01.439-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ethics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"human rights"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The human dignity of anencephalic babies"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Anencephaly is a birth defect in which the brain fails to form properly.  An anencephalic  baby is commonly described as having \"no brain,\" although in fact the more primitive parts of the brain are generally present. Of those who are not killed before birth, many anencephalic infants are stillborn, but others live for a short time after birth, and a very few can survive a matter of months.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSome in the medical community view anencephalic babies with a sort of vampirish greed. As early as 1988, a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid\u003dJjPL1nLCvfZyft7JHMhC5L7twRQMdh3VnQhHF5tZt2GZnxHGLvqR%21-1911411410%217063501?docId\u003d5002140994\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003ejournal article on anencephaly and organ donation\u003c/a\u003e noted that \"as neonatal transplant science advances, the already acute shortage of small organs will likely grow worse \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eunless new sources of organs are identified\u003c/span\u003e\" (emphasis added).  It being the case that small organs do not grow on trees, the new sources that need to be \"identified\" can be nothing other than live babies less \"valuable\" than the ones needing transplants.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne of these potential \"sources\" is named \u003ca href\u003d\"http://babyfaithhope.blogspot.com/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eFaith Hope\u003c/a\u003e.  Today she is 53 days old and breathes without any intervention.  Her single mother Myah, blogging about her baby, reports being encouraged by doctors to kill Faith before she was born and being told that her baby would die shortly after birth.  To be fair, most anencephalic live births \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003edo\u003c/span\u003e die shortly after, but Faith is not unique in her survival, either.  Though she does not discuss it much on the blog, apparently Myah is feeling some pressure to offer her baby up for organ harvesting.  In her post \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://babyfaithhope.blogspot.com/2009/01/spare-parts.html\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eSpare Parts\u003c/a\u003e,\" she writes with heart-wrenching irony,\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eIt would be such a noble thing for me to do... after all, what other purpose could my baby's life possibly serve? She is harboring valuable baby organs, and let's face it... she's as good as dead anyway. Her organs could be used to save a baby who actually has a brain.\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMyah might be encouraged by the opinion published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/bcdanen1.htm\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003edignity of anencephalic infants\u003c/a\u003e.  The Church explicitly rejects the opinion \"that anencephalic children, 'because of their apparent lack of cognitive function, and in view of the probable brevity of their lives', lack human rights 'or at least have lives of less meaning or purpose than others'.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMeanwhile, a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/publications/scopenotes/sn12.pdf\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003esecular ethical report on anencephalic babies as organ donors\u003c/a\u003e (PDF) asked, \"Are anencephalic infants being considered as potential organ sources because they are dead, because they will die imminently and inevitably, or because their brains have not yet developed, and never will develop, to a stage at which they can be considered 'human persons'?\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe question really comes down to who has the best claim to the right of having the anencephalic child's organs: the child herself, or the potential transplantee? As with all organ transplants, clearly the answer is that the person born with the organs has first rights to them. A life cannot be ended, regardless of any external valuations of the quality of that life, in order to claim organs. Just as killing an embryo for its stem cells is wrong, so is killing a baby with a brain defect for its organs.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFurther reading:\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.leavethelightson.info/2008/08/science-and-question-of-when-life.html\"\u003eScience and the question of when life begins\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.leavethelightson.info/2008/02/ethics-of-organ-donation.html\"\u003eThe ethics of organ donation\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5813489507942316135-948994925955138537?l\u003dginkgo100.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/feeds/948994925955138537/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5813489507942316135\u0026postID\u003d948994925955138537\u0026isPopup\u003dtrue","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/948994925955138537"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5813489507942316135/posts/default/948994925955138537"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://ginkgo100.blogspot.com/2009/04/human-dignity-of-anencephalic-babies.html","title":"The human dignity of anencephalic babies"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Ginkgo100"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871889955884253147"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"10586589345248242200"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}}]}});