Dear Dr. Trasancos,
Thank you for checking supplemental material not included in the AP article. Your words are so succinct and on the money!
"Humanity is much more than semantics and it is not the definitive purview of an Ethics Committee. Our collective history is full of calamitous events that were the direct result of the diminution of a group's humanity."
In addition to Archbishop Perez and Bishop O'Connell, their respective offices, the Pa Catholic Conference, the NJ Catholic Conference, the Catholic Medical Association, and the National Catholic Bioethics Center needs to follow you courageous lead and alert the faithful to this duplicitous reporting.
God bless you,
Joe Tevington
From: Jose L. Trasancos <jose@cogforlife.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 10:15:23 PM
To: Joe Tevington <atptptjt@live.com>; Judie Brown <jbrown@all.org>; stacy@cogforlife.org <stacy@cogforlife.org>; feedback@halovoice.org <feedback@halovoice.org>; jmeaney@ncbcenter.org <jmeaney@ncbcenter.org>; Steven Bozza <sbozza@archphila.org>; rhendr@dioceseoftrenton.org <rhendr@dioceseoftrenton.org>; jarrio@dioceseoftrenton.org <jarrio@dioceseoftrenton.org>
Cc: Absp.nperez@archphila.org <Absp.nperez@archphila.org>; Bishop O'Connell <doconn@dioceseoftrenton.org>
Subject: RE: Scientists use stem cells to create models of pre-embryos (BC CourierTimes, 12/5/21)
The reference to 're-programmed adult stem cells' is encouraging as a future research approach, although adult stem cell sources have been 'in discussion' for some time and there has been some work done in regenerative medicine and organoids grown from adult stem cells as functional surrogates in a variety of other applications. The work on adult stem cells gathered momentum a little more than a decade ago and most of the recent literature I've seen is focused on regenerative therapies.
I looked through some of the supplemental materials published in Nature. I couldn't help myself – this is what I emailed the corresponding author:
The Population Characteristics entry states that '… no human subjects were involved in this research'. The Ethics Oversight entry then states 'The use of human embryos donated to research as surplus of IVF….'
Clearly, these 'no human subjects' were used in this experiment precisely because of their humanity, otherwise any mammalian source would have sufficed. I understand that a process was followed and proscribed words and statements were used in the interest of adherence to standards, but is anyone associated with this body of work troubled by the contradictory nature of what I'm calling to attention? Humanity is much more than semantics and it is not the definitive purview of an Ethics Committee. Our collective history is full of calamitous events that were the direct result of the diminution of a group's humanity.
If all it takes is words, then I fear we are closing in on what Sir Thomas Hobbes referred to in Leviathan as 'the life of Man in the state of nature', where life is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. Abrogation of the social contract to one is merely a promise to the rest that their time will come.
I would appreciate a brief comment and I thank you for indulging my question and commentary.
Yours very sincerely, and in Christ,
Jose L. Trasancos, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Children of God for Life, Inc.
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From: Joe Tevington
Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:31 PM
To: Judie Brown; jose@cogforlife.org; stacy@cogforlife.org; feedback@halovoice.org; jmeaney@ncbcenter.org; Steven Bozza; rhendr@dioceseoftrenton.org; jarrio@dioceseoftrenton.org
Cc: Absp.nperez@archphila.org; Bishop O'Connell
Subject: Scientists use stem cells to create models of pre-embryos (BC CourierTimes, 12/5/21)
The above named (and below linked) article is making the rounds....
Obviously evil intentions (e.g., "improving" contraceptives) naturally demand that consideration of this technology be foregone.
Otherwise, is it accurate that a possibly "ethical" research method alternative is being described?
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