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Created by God’s Hands

Redeemed by God’s Hands

Held by God’s Hands

Holy For Life Habits Flow from God’s Holy For Life Habits

Holy For Life HabitsHoly For Life HabitsGod’s

Speaking and Defending

Redeeming Holding

Ours

Creating

Accepting and Forgiving

Caring

Valuing the Least of These

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)

Biotechnology 101 Biotechnology 101 and God’s Wordand God’s Word

In VitroIn Vitro Fertilization Fertilization

“In glass”


Embryonic gradingEmbryonic grading

Grade 4 Grade 3 Grade 2

Grade 0Grade 1


Pre-implantation genetic diagnosisPre-implantation genetic diagnosis


““Good” embryosGood” embryos Implantation in the uterusImplantation in the uterus

• Implant several embryosImplant several embryos

• ““Selectively reduce”Selectively reduce” Stored by freezingStored by freezing

“Ectogenesis” Artificial Womb

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In Vitro Fertilization:In Vitro Fertilization:Moral or Immoral?Moral or Immoral?

Blastocyst (5 days)Blastocyst (5 days)

Stem Cell Research

Blastocyst on tip of pinBlastocyst on tip of pin

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

• God’s Procreative Process

Conception8-week baby

One Celled Human Being

(Zygote)

5-Day Human Being

(Blastocyst)

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

• Obtaining stem cells from embryos

Extracted Stem Cells


(Zygote)

5-Day Human Being

(Blastocyst)

Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cell Research

Stem Cells

Bone Marrow Nerve Pancreatic

Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cell ResearchSource: WebMD Corporation

Totipotent

Pluripotent

Multipotent

Adult Stem CellsAdult Stem Cells Matured (“adult”)Matured (“adult”) From umbilical cordsFrom umbilical cords Amniotic FluidAmniotic Fluid From you and meFrom you and me Pluripotent as wellPluripotent as well Embryonic stem cells =Embryonic stem cells =

No successNo success Adult stem cells =Adult stem cells =

Many successesMany successes

Prof. Kang Kyung-sun of Seoul National University explains the process of harvesting pancreatic beta cells from umbilical cord blood stem cells. (The Korean Times, 1/23/07)

Umbilical Cord Blood

Stem cells found in pulp of baby teeth! (Scientific American April 23, 2003)

Baby Teeth

Amniotic Fluid

The research results were scientifically profound. The researchers not only isolated fat, bone, muscle, skin, nerve, and liver cells from extracted amniotic cells, but also reported that these cells produced specialized functions. For example, isolated bone marrow cells from amniotic stem cells showed the ability to produce functional bone marrow osteoblasts (bone marrow forming cells) and liver cells isolated from amniotic stem cells expressed proteins such as albumin and urea (a characteristic liver-specific function). In addition, amniotic stem cells produced characteristics of cardiac muscle and insulin production. (Dr. Robert Weise, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in LifeDate Spring 2007)

Breaking News!Breaking News!Induced pluripotent stem cells, commonly abbreviated as iPSC cells or iPSCs, are a type of pluripotent stem cell artificially derived from a non-plutipotent cell, typically an adult somatic cell by inducing a "forced" expression of certain genes.

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Stem Cell Research:Stem Cell Research:Understanding the BasicsUnderstanding the Basics

Cloning

Cloning• The Cloning Process

Egg Cell23 Chromosomes

Somatic (body) Cell 46 Chromosomes

Stimulation

5-Day Human Being

(Blastocyst)


(Zygote)

Reproductive Cloning “Therapeutic”

Cloning

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

Copy Cat RainbowRainbowCopy Cat

A review of all the world’s cloned animals suggests that every one of them is genetically and physically defective. Ian

Wilmut said, “There is abundant evidence that cloning can and does go wrong and no justification for believing that this

will not happen with humans.”(“Gene defects emerge in all animal clones.” Sunday Times of London, April 28, 2002)

We know from animal cloning that the technical problems and dangers associated with cloning will never produce

therapies that these researchersspeculate could be applied to human beings.

David Stevens, MD, Christian Medical & Dental Associations,New & Views, February 19, 2004

Cloned Human Beings?Cloned Human Beings?

Fraud!!

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Cloning:Cloning:Understanding the BasicsUnderstanding the Basics

Genetic EngineeringGenetic Engineering

Genetic engineering is the alteration of an Genetic engineering is the alteration of an organism’s genetic material to eliminate organism’s genetic material to eliminate undesirable characteristics or to produce undesirable characteristics or to produce desirable new ones.desirable new ones.

Lutheran?

Genetic EngineeringGenetic Engineering

Blue eyes?

Boy? Girl?

Tall?

Athletic?

No disease?

Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Genomics

and Its Impact on Medicine and Society: A 2001 Primer, 2001

Playing GodPlaying GodRedesigning LifeRedesigning Life

““Drawing lines is necessary not just Drawing lines is necessary not just because it is right, but because drawing because it is right, but because drawing

lines is at stake.” lines is at stake.” (Joni Eareckson Tada)(Joni Eareckson Tada)

Why do we oppose embryonic stem cell research and cloning?

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think whether they should.” From the film Jurassic Park

“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others. 1Corinthians 10:23-24


“Haven’t you read”, He replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?” (Jesus – Matthew 19:4-5)

For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:13-14)



“You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13)

“The embryo is, I believe, the weakest and least advantaged of our fellow human beings, and no community is really strong if it will not carry its weakest members.”

(Dr. Gilbert Milander, Valparaiso University)


“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Exodus 20:2-3)

“Do you have the kind of heart that expects from Him nothing but good, especially in distress and want, and renounces and forsakes all that is not God? Then you have the one true God. On the contrary, does your heart cling to something else from which it hopes to receive more good and help than from God, and does it flee not to Him but from Him when things go wrong? Then you have an idol, another god.” (Martin Luther – Large

Catechism)



“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Exodus 20:2-3)

“You shall conceive in your womb . . .” (Luke 1:31)


He who did not spare His only Son but gave

Him up for us all—how will He not also,

along with Him, graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32)

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