Judie Brown
Human rights or human wrongs?
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By Judie Brown
January 5, 2013

The line between what is an acceptable and moral practice is continually blurred, and may soon be nonexistent. In our "me first" society, it is expected that we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, with our bodies because, after all, they are our bodies and no one can tell us what we can or can't do. And so science marches along. Science can be a great thing, and miracles happen every day in the field of science. But just because we can do something doesn't mean we should do it. Today's commentary addresses what can happen when we allow science to govern us rather than taking control of science and respecting the life God has given us.

This past year has witnessed an escalation in the redefining of human rights. For example, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stated in its Annual Report that contraception access is a "universal human right." Implying that the use of contraception improves the overall health and financial status of women, the UN report fails to point out the deleterious effects that such steroidal pills have on women, causing everything from blood clots to death. In addition, as is always the case, the UNFPA report avoids the fact that the pill can kill a human being during his first week of life.

In Costa Rica, a recent court decision addressing the country's ban on in vitro fertilization decried the ban, arguing that the law "violates the American Convention on Human Rights." As one report states, "By prohibiting IVF, Costa Rica has 'violated the rights to private and family life, to personal integrity . . . to sexual health, to enjoy the benefits of scientific and technological progress, and the principle of non-discrimination'. . . . Moreover, the court recognizes conception as the period after implantation, not after fertilization, and says that 'the regulation trends in international law do not lead to the conclusion that the embryo must be treated equally as a person or that it has a right to life.'"

Thus the court redefines when a human being's life begins and dismisses from the equation all human beings in existence prior to implantation. In other words, sexually and asexually created individuals from the first moment of their lives until they implant in their mothers' wombs do not exist!

This twisted logic begs the obvious question: Human rights for whom? Or to put it another way, are human beings defined in or out of existence based on the whims of other humans?

Such twisted statements, evil to the core, invite further redefinitions of human rights, not to mention the human being himself. This manipulation of language is leading mankind down a treacherous path. It is no longer a stretch of the imagination to go from defining contraception and in vitro fertilization as human rights to claiming that the emerging technocratic practices of the transhumanists will become human rights as well.

Rebecca Taylor makes this point very clear, writing, "Political scientist Francis Fukuyama, when discussing transhumanism as his answer to the greatest threat to humanity, believes the 'first victim of transhumanism might be equality.'"

According to Fukuyama, "If we start transforming ourselves into something superior, what rights will these enhanced creatures claim, and what rights will they possess when compared to those left behind?"

In other words, "human rights" will become increasingly arbitrary and, in fact, meaningless.

If this sounds like science fiction to you, and the stretch from contraception to IVF to transhumanism is difficult to grasp, think about this: What is really natural about contraception? Isn't it a practice of using something artificial in the body to facilitate "freedom" from pregnancy?

Isn't in vitro fertilization the unnatural practice of "creating" humans in petri dishes?

The answer to both questions is yes! So don't be shocked when further aberrations make it difficult to discern exactly what natural human rights are and to whom such rights apply.

The simple truth is this: "The roots of human rights are to be found in the dignity that belongs to each human being. This dignity, inherent in human life and equal in every person, is perceived and understood first of all by reason. The natural foundation of rights appears all the more solid when, in light of the supernatural, it is considered that human dignity, after having been given by God and having been profoundly wounded by sin, was taken on and redeemed by Jesus Christ in his incarnation, death, and resurrection."

NATURALLY!

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