would you kill one child to save 100?

It twas an interesting discussion today in bio lab. We got onto the topic of stem cell research, one that I'm not informed enough about, but I do know my stance. A girl was stating that they found that the blood from the umbilical cord may be used as stem cells, but she wasn't 100% sure on that. Our teacher looked up some stuff and sent us an e-mail after class, pointing us to this link: http://www.isscr.org/science/faq.htm I forwarded that e-mail to the homegroup, hopefully people will take it seriously and get informed. Sometimes I feel like my homegroup can be a bunch of complacent Christians, not all of them, but there are a few I feel like just don't care about social issues, in which we need to. I'm starting to see policy and politics a lot more like Jessica Moore, "I can't see how a Christian could be a Republican." Abortion is the same thing to God, He isn't partial and thus porn, cusing, drunkedness, murder and speeding are all the same thing to Him. Why would abortion justify going completley Republican? I dunno.

My grandmother has Parkinsons. She's got it real bad. Worse than you think. As soon as a new experimental drug comes out, she's on it like white on rice. And nothing is working, because now her body has built up such an immunity to the chemicals that they have to be in incredibly high doeses that are causing hallucinations. Not just a marage kind of thing, but people. She's had a few latley: 1) That there are two little black boys running around their tiny apparment all day long and they she gets upset with my grandpa because she thinks he's not doing anything about it. 2) That there was a party that Jack (my grandpa) threw in the appartment, we're talking about 25-30 people all in formal attire, and she was super embarassed because she was caught wearing her night gowns, so she broke down in tears again. How do you hallucinate 30 people in your 700 sq. ft. appartment? and 3) that Jack was having an affair with a 15 year old girl in the appartment. This is crazy, she is crazy.

She's lost it, her mind is almost completely gone, but her body is doing fine. This disease is no where killing her, she's fine physically, but you look at her and you would think that she has gone completely psychotic. This is the line where I draw closer to pro-euthanasia. And stem cell research. I almost don't want to go home to FTL so I don't have to deal with all of this, it's too painful to watch, but I know I need to, I know she needs to see her first grandchild for support. One of the last times I saw her, I could barely say " I love you and I'm praying for you" without choking on my tears. I can't handle this kind of stuff, not with the people I love, not without Christ.

So what do we do, us Christians? Do we let people suffer like this, tormented by something that's not of their own device, or do we do something about it? Honestly, what would Jesus do? I wish I knew. But I know what I would do. My grandmother never did anything do deserve this, and I'm not going to let her sit here and erode away while we sit here and debate on whether or not this is moral. What the crap is moral anyways now? Homosexual marriages are moral somehow. Whatever America. Abortion is always going to happen, same with homosexuality, same with any other sin. It's never going to go away in this life, so let's make the best of it. Our religious right isn't going to change anything, sorry, it's just not going to erradicate all of this filth that is in every pore of our country. God Himself is king, so what's to fear?

Stitches always breaking.