Wesley J. Smith, a noted writer on life issues, catalogues a recent case of anti-life propaganda pushed by America’s premier newspaper Pravda… er, I mean the New York Times:
"Today’s Times has a front page story on Woo-Suk Hwang’s ethical lapses in obtaining eggs for therapeutic cloning, which I blogged on yesterday. Toward the end of the article, the story shifts from describing his bad ethics to defending therapeutic cloning. While the story mentions cloning embryos when describing the egg issue, it leaves that fact out entirely when actually describing the process of ‘therapeutic cloning,’ which, readers are told, consists merely of ‘converting one of a patient’s adult cells into an embryonic cell, and then converting that cell into new adult cells to replace any damaged tissue.’
"This description omits the crucial point: In somatic cell nuclear transfer, the nucleus of the adult cell is fused with the egg to create a new human embryo through asexual means — the act of human cloning. The embryo is developed for about a week and then destroyed to obtain its stem cells. This is not merely reverting an adult cell to a stem cell. It is creating a new human organism, a human life, for the purpose of destroying and harvesting it.
"The point of the inaccurate reporting is to conveniently skip past the part that causes people to be wary of the therapeutic cloning enterprise. This is bad journalism and an example of bias-by-omission for which the New York Times is becoming infamous."
This must be why God created bloggers.
This story, and the way it highlights the importance of language, dovetails nicely with an article by Oswald Sobrino over at Catholic Exchange.
His article is about the Notre Dame Queer Film Festival. That’s Notre Dame, as in the once Catholic University.
http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=30961
I beg to differ. in the real world,
i would say America’s Ministry of Propaganda would be the White House Press Office.
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