Just got off the phone with the Supreme Court clerk’s office Tuesday, June 3, 2:55 pm. We called to see if the clerk’s office had received the Motion for Injunctive Relief that I filed on Friday (May 31st) from their central processing facility (after 9/11 they have to scan all papers for toxic chemicals). He had not received it even though we clocked it in Friday afternoon at which time we were told it should arrive at the clerk’s office for distribution to the judges on Monday (June 3rd).
He asked a little of what the motion was about and under the rule of court, he would not accept it anyway unless we could give affidavit of complying with the rule (it’s a good common sense rule that says you must first exhaust remedies in all lower courts before coming to the Supreme Court.)
But this is not an ordinary Prayer for Injunctive Relief, this is an extraordinary Prayer for Injunctive Relief. (In legalese ‘Prayer’ is another word for ‘Motion’) Time is of the essence. What sense does it make to go back to this conflicted judge in New York and wait for him to rule on your motion, and then follow the chain up; next stop the Supreme Court of New York State; then, and only then, the U.S. Supreme Court??
The man on the phone seemed determined to dig his heels in and require us to go around Robin Hood’s barn before he will allow the judges to see it. It reminds me of the problems that physicians have encountered with insurance companies. They want to discharge the doctor’s patient prematurely and when the doctor inquires of the insurance company representative if he has even gone to medical school, the answer is “no”, but the insurance representative is enjoying the authority he has over the doctor and the doctor’s patient.
What I am saying is that I have done my best to give the Supreme Court the tool they need to act immediately. I think we succeeded in at least getting the idea out. (I gave 3 copies to a nice older man who worked in the clerk’s office, and when I told him what it was about, he said “I will see that the right people get these.” He seemed to know what he was doing, and who he would get it to. He seemed sincere and determined to assist in getting it to the right individual or individuals who could make a difference.
Curiously, the conversation came right outside the locked door of the clerk’s office (he was headed back in with a McDonald’s bag in his hand. I saw what I thought was a fish sandwich in a box and I told him my father used to say that McDonald’s fillet of fish was the only thing that they couldn’t mess up. He agreed but said his was a chicken sandwich.
The guard opened the door for him promptly and he went in with a McDonald’s bag in one hand and 3 copies of our motion in the other. Bless his heart. He wasn’t worried about toxic chemicals.
Gone are the old days when we could walk in through an open door to the clerk’s office and have a friendly chat with the people behind the counter and file things in person.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. Perhaps some of you can think of a way to get this motion for what its worth in the hands of someone who can make a difference.
We need the court to quell the flared tempers beginning to rise in this nation. They did it with the Florida vote in Bush v. Gore. The judges reached down and pulled it straight upstairs (none of this business of having to exhaust your remedies in the Florida state courts. In so doing the Supreme Court once saved our Republic in Bush v. Gore. Now they need to do it again.
A Tool For the Supreme Court (cover letter)
Dear friends and family of the preborn child,
Enclosed kindly find copy of Motion for Emergency Injunctive Relief filed with the United States Supreme Court the day after President Trump’s sentencing. It was clocked in on Friday, May 31st, 2024, at 2:26 pm. I myself wonder where it came from.
The sentence was handed down Thursday afternoon (May 30th). I discussed it with my wife as all the rest of us did. We watched a movie on TV and retired for bed and to the best of my knowledge, I thought no more about it at that point. Like the rest of the country, I figured this thing would have to wait to be vindicated in the appellate process someday (Good Heavens! This team of lawyers he has hired will make a retirement project out of it and they’ll take until the cows come home to ever get it up to the U.S. Supreme Court – too late for the election five months away).
Then for some reason I awoke at 4:30 am with the idea to give the court a tool they could use to act. The Supreme Court has said time and time again that they themselves cannot wake up in the morning and go into the court and react to something on the news the night before. They have to have an actual case before them on appeal or at the minimum a petition for some sort of emergency relief (something comes up and there is not time to climb the appellate ladder, etc).
We have given them the tool to act if they so desire. It is now entirely up to the court. If they choose to act and pause the sentencing phase of President Trump’s trial they can. If they choose inaction, that is action. People are not going to stand for the goings on of this kangaroo court to continue to work its way toward tragedy for the Republic.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
Arizona’s 164 Year Old Law Still Speaks
My administrative assistant said it when she learned of the recent ruling of the Arizona Supreme Court: “It’s about time they started enforcing the good laws that are on the books!”
As we know, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobb’s said that the states were free to do whatever they wanted on the question of the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child, and to read the Dobb’s decision, what the states decide would be essentially undisturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
We are back to the division of the nation prior to the Civil War: Was the black man person or property? Today, the great moral question facing the nation is whether or not the preborn child is a person with her own rights, or property to be disposed of at the whim of the mother; or even as a human embryo, to be vivisected in human embryo stem cell experimentation.
In his speech as a presidential candidate at the Cooper Institute in New York City, on February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln said it:
“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
These words speak to the prolife community today 164 years later.
How is it possible that an Arizona law going back to the Civil War was understanding the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child a century before the advent of modern fetology and ultrasound that put ‘windows on the womb’?
Arizona had it right from the beginning! They were right in the eyes of God, and they were right in the hearts of the people. Other states need to follow the lead of Arizona. What laws do other states have on the books that could be enforced now that Dobb’s allows just that?
The pro-abort forces in Arizona have already gathered the signatures to put the killing of preborn children on the ballot. They use as a euphemism ‘to allow “reproductive” rights’ – and that is probably exactly the way it will be phrased on the ballot. People in Arizona will be required to vote, one at a time as they go in the voting booth, for or against the God-given equal humanity and personhood of preborn children.
God knows and counts the hairs on the heads of each of us. Those who waver and don’t want to take a position on this question will be forced to vote one way or the other.
In Psalm 33:13-14 we find the following: “The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.”
God must weep after putting the truth in men’s hearts (the Arizona law from the Civil War era). The devilish mischief has been to rip the truth from the human heart and put in its place the lie of “reproductive rights”.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. Politics is compromise. You will hear this a lot this coming election season about allowing abortion for the first 6 to 16 weeks. Are we to require preborn children to run the gauntlet of the Valley of the Shadow of Death for 6 weeks or 16 weeks, before those whom God has created are respected and protected by state law?
If we fail to protect the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, we pull the golden thread of the sacredness of life that permeates the entire continuum of life itself.
A New Kind of Weapon
While we do not ordinarily think of the subject of war as a prolife matter; it is nevertheless. The devil has loved death and dying from the beginning, striking at the human family from conception (preborn) then stirring up wars among the born, up to the death of the elderly (euthanasia).
We pray for peace, but the egos of world leaders (such as Putin of Russia and Xi of China) seem to be gravitating toward war. War seems to be the constant. Scripture tells us that there will always be wars and rumors of wars.
Foes and allies seem to change like a game of musical chairs. In the Second World War, our enemies were primarily Germany and Japan. Now, Japan and Germany are allies. The advent of the nuclear bomb ended the war with Japan in the Pacific, and the possibility of nuclear war between Russia the U.S. has been averted until now by the ominous prospect of ‘mutually assured destruction’. Nuclear war cannot be won.
It has been confirmed that Russia is developing a space based anti-satellite weapon which some reports indicate is a nuclear weapon or, at the very least, contains a nuclear component.
The prospect of such weapons taking out U.S. satellites is of grave concern. Modern warfare is inconceivable without satellites – clusters of which (like GPS) are used to aim ‘precision strike’ weapons and guide ground forces into position.
One problem: it would be difficult to limit the damage inflicted. Detonation of nuclear weapons produces gamma radiation which can incapacitate satellites – including ones that the attacking country did not intend to target.
Deployment of nuclear weapons in space is barred by a 1967 treaty, though Russia has recently tested the limits of its arms control agreements.
President Ronald Reagan’s wisdom was “peace through strength”. “Mutually assured destruction” has kept the peace (as far as nuclear weapons are concerned).
Putin would be thinking to himself “Well, I am not bombing a country. I am only destroying satellites that the country uses.”, but this is an attack on peace and it is an attack on all countries. It should be made plain to Putin that this would be an attack on NATO and would be considered as if it were a land attack.
Let us pray!
IVF For the Love of Money
On March 6th, the governor of Alabama signed a bill protecting IVF in the state following the Feb 16th ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court that IVF embryos are “unborn (preborn) children”.
The problem we still have is that what the IVF lobby pushed through the legislature for the governor to sign continues to allow IVF facilities to make multiple ‘spare’ children, thereby exploiting the woman (they offer discounts if she agrees to ‘donate’ her ‘spare’ embryos (little children) to ‘science’ (to be sold for vivisection as chattel in the denatured biology of human embryo stem cell experimentation).
Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law retains the good of IVF while eliminating the bad. Someone needs to introduce Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law immediately in the Alabama Legislature. Article 3 provides in pertinent part:
“No human embryo can be submitted to any exploitation whatsoever. The pursuit of its continued development until its term, in the organism of its mother, must be offered to each embryo before another embryo is conceived.”
When the IVF money making lobby protests, ask them WHY they are protesting. The IVF clinics in the United States have the technology todo this ‘one child at a time’ (as the countries of Australia and New Zealand currently do). Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law does not prevent them from assisting infertile couples to have a baby. If these clinics are truly ‘only about helping infertile couples to have a child’, conceiving only one child at a time and allowing that child shelter in the womb of her mother before another child is conceived still complies with the purity of the reason for IVF in the first place.
Couples come to them with the highest human aspiration – wanting a child to love. The IVF facilities, however, have their own love – the LOVE OF MONEY – money gained by trafficking preborn children for vivisection and experimentation. They want to go right on reaching out to hold the hands of the woman with tear filled eyes, desperate to have a child, assuring her that they are going to help her – as they press the papers in front of her, pointing to the signature line and saying, “Sign right here”. She gets a discount if she agrees to their terms.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. This letter is written on the morning of Thursday, March 7th, prior to the president’s State of the Union speech this evening. The administration is seeking to make political hay out of the throwback from the Alabama Supreme Court case. They plan to have in the balcony a woman who has benefited from IVF.
Now that this is being brought to the foreground of the nation’s attention, this is an ideal time for the legislatures of our nation’s red states to speak up and pass Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law.
No More ‘Spare’ Children!
Chief Judge Tom Parker, in this wonderful Alabama Supreme Court case respecting the lives of preborn children even as human embryos, pointed out that in Australia and New Zealand “prevailing ethical standards dictate that physicians usually make only one embryo at a time.”
So no matter what the IVF lobby in our own nation tells you, IVF can be done without making ‘spare’ children.
Judge Parker goes on to point out that the European community is not far behind in avoiding making ‘spare’ children to be orphaned to the deep freeze of cryopreservation or treated as chattel and sold for vivisection in human embryo stem cell experimentation. Judge Parker also stated that Italy goes a step further “banning cryopreservation of embryos except when a bona fide health risk or force majeure prevented the embryos from being transferred immediately after their creation.”
We need to make Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law the law of the land. In Article 3 of his proposed law, the last paragraph provides in pertinent part:
“No human embryo can be submitted to any exploitation whatsoever. The pursuit of its continued development until its term, in the organism of its mother, must be offered to each embryo before another embryo is conceived.”
Innovations in technology necessarily require new law. In the instance of new IVF technology which has been with us now for 40 some years, Australia, New Zealand, the European community and even Italy are doing a better job respecting the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child from that child’s beginning even as a human embryo than we are doing in the United States. Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law is a wise and good law – and good laws are good and wise for any state. The states need to lead the way, beginning with the State of Alabama, in passing Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law.
Follow The Money
“Follow the Money.” Just when chief judge Tom Parker and his brethren of the Alabama Supreme Court hand down a win for preborn children even as human embryos, the IVF fertility clinic forces are lobbying the Alabama legislature to keep in place the status quo on how they go about in vitro fertilization.
This would be an ideal time for the Alabama legislature to pass Dr. Jerome Lejeune’s (the world dean of geneticists) Proposal of Law (link at the end of this article).
Article 3 of his proposal provides in pertinent part:
“No human embryo can be submitted to any exploitation whatsoever. The pursuit of its continued development until its term, in the organism of its mother, must be offered to each embryo before another embryo is conceived.”
“Follow the money.” IVF clinics want to keep doing what they have been doing – giving the wife hyper-ovulating drugs so that she produces multiple eggs at the same time and then fertilizing these multiple eggs with the husband’s sperm and then freezing the ‘leftover’ very tiny children ostensibly for the couple to come back at a later time if they choose to have another child or children.
The IVF clinics offer a ‘discount’ for the IVF procedure if the wife will agree to donate her ‘spare’ embryos to ‘science’. There is a price on the heads of these little ones because the IVF clinics sell them for the denatured biology of human embryo experimentation.
Dr. Lejeune put it well when he said, “It is not good to make ‘spare’ children.” And it is certainly not good to sell ‘spare’ children to be vivisected in the experimenter’s lab for which experimenters receive huge grants on the promise that there will come from human embryo stem cell experimentation remedies for human maladies and disease.
Dr. Bill Hogan has told us that not a person on the planet has ever benefited from human embryo stem cell experimentation. The hope lies with adult stem cell experimentation (stem cells extracted from the patient as with a mere small scraping of skin cells from the arm which does not kill the human being). Technicians then manipulate these adult stem cells and inject them back into the patient from whom they came and therefore they are not rejected by the patient.
The money making IVF forces will now lobby the Alabama legislature on bended knee with an emotional appeal, “Oh, please pass a law that ensures our right to help these poor infertile couples to conceive and have a child.”
If this is truly their goal, the passage of Dr. Lejeune’s Proposal of Law ensures that. If they come up with multiple technical reasons why this will hamper IVF clinics helping infertile couples there is every reason to be suspect. Follow the money.
Alabama, God bless you and God bless the Alabama Supreme Court. You are leading the nation on the good cause of children yet to be. Lead on!
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
The Statesman We Need
The world is moving ominously close to World War III and it is a war that must never be fought. Nuclear war cannot be won.
Albert Einstein reportedly commented that he did not know how World War III would be fought, but he did know how the 4th World War would be fought: with sticks and stones!
We have a lot of politicians anymore. We have no Statesmen.
We need a Ronald Reagan to lead us now more than ever – a statesman of integrity, respected worldwide. A man who believes in the power of prayer as did Ronald Reagan who sought the protective hand of Providence and wisdom from on high. The world stage seems devoid of such a man outside of the U.S.
There may be one such man in our own nation who could possibly fill the bill. He has dropped out of the squalor and mud-slinging of the presidential race for now – his name is Vice President Mike Pence – President Trump’s wise chose for VP – an experienced and successful Governor of Indiana and member of Congress whose reputation for truth and veracity preceded him.
When you read his book “So Help Me God”, you come to understand that he was the one behind the scenes (he never sought to upstage his president) that cut the red tape to come up with a Covid vaccine at warp speed that saved millions of lives; negotiated the “stay in Mexico policy” to keep order at our southern border – legal immigration not invasion – and many other significant accomplishments of the Trump presidency that Vice President Pence worked hard to bring about.
At the time of the 2016 election I attended the yearly national meeting of our Christian Legal Society held at the Crystal City Marriott Convention Center in Washington, DC, that year – lawyers and some judges and law students from all over the nation and the world.
They scheduled a 7:00 am prayer meeting one morning that I attended – a smaller gathering for the early risers. When I came in they were discussing who to back in the upcoming election. They knew they did not want Hillary Clinton (pro-abortion) but they had mixed feelings about Donald Trump.
I proffered to the group that while Mike Pence, a solid Christian, would make an ideal candidate, he would not win at this time on his own. Donald Trump “sells soap”, I told them, “And put the two together and you have a good combination because Mike Pence would pray with the president and influence him.” – and he did.
Look how he brought Trump around on the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child. Remember in Trump’s last State of the Union speech when he referred to “unborn (preborn) children Created in the Holy Image of God”? Right after these words, he turned and looked back over his shoulder at his vice president seated on the raised dais as though to say “Did I say that right?”
In Mike Pence’s book he tells of the first cabinet meeting when he suggested to the president that they open the meeting with prayer to which Trump responded that was not exactly how they opened real estate meetings in New York, but he agreed. The devilish mischief was to separate these two men at the end of the Trump presidency.
Is there someone out there who can think of a way to bring these two together over dinner to reflect on all the good they did accomplish together? If they could smoke the peace pipe and pick up where they left off – a Trump/Pence presidential ticket again – they and they alone could lead America out of the doldrums and restore order on the world stage. And then Vice President Pence could possibly carry on for 8 years after that.
Let us pray!
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. The Supreme Court of Alabama, in a decision handed down February 16th just past, has ruled that frozen human embryos are children. We remember that Judge W. Dale Young of the Blount County, Tennessee, circuit court, based upon Dr. Jerome Lejeune’s testimony before him in the Tennessee Frozen Human Embryo case, ruled in 1989 that Mary’s frozen human embryos were ‘children in vitro”. This was the first such ruling in the history of law. The Supreme Court of Alabama agrees.
You will want to read and yellow highlight this ruling of the Supreme Court of Alabama (first ten pages enclosed) – it will bring joy to your heart. This case is headed to the United States Supreme Court. You can download the entire ruling on our website at naapc.org
Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote in an opinion attached to the ruling:
“In summary, the theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted by the People of Alabama encompasses the following:
(1). God made every person in his image.
(2). Each person therefore has a value that far exceeds the ability of human beings to calculate.
(3). Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself.”
The TEMPLE OF ACCORD has become the TEMPLE OF BABEL
Dr. Jerome Lejeune called RU-486 (the morning after pill) “THE WORLD’S FIRST HUMAN PESTICIDE”! He pointed out that it endangers the health and sometimes the life of the mother while it kills the preborn child within the mother, her closest neighbor.
U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide if its use is to be allowed to continue.
The Biden Justice Department has cleverly taken the position with the court that the FDA should be the one to decide the issue as they do with the safety of any other drug.
The fallacy of this reasoning is that with ordinary drugs (such as penicillin or other antibiotics; drugs meant to heal and save life), everyone is in the same boat having the wish to save and preserve life. In this instance, the FDA has approved a drug whose sole purpose is to take life – to kill the preborn child within the mother.
On the question of killing preborn children, our nation is divided, whereas on the question of healing and the preservation of life the nation is of one accord.
THE TEMPLE OF ACCORD HAS BECOME THE TEMPLE OF BABEL.
The U.S. Supreme Court has every right, indeed the OBLIGATION, to speak.
In Dobb’s, they said the word ‘abortion’ is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Is a human pesticide to cause an abortion constitutional?
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P.S. We are of one accord on drugs that heal, but on drugs that kill, the TEMPLE OF ACCORD has become the TEMPLE OF BABEL.
Where Are We Headed?
We are fast approaching the 250th anniversary of the Independence of the United States (this July 4th will be 248 years). Where have we come in those years and where are we headed?
Dr. Jerome Lejeune pointed out that ‘Technology is cumulative; wisdom is not.’ We have come from the horn book for the students in school to AI – from the stagecoach to the automobile, trains, planes and rockets to the moon and back.
Medical science has advanced by leaps and bounds and we now have ‘test tube babies’ but lack the wisdom to use such technology. We make ‘spare’ human embryos, “left over very tiny children” from IVF procedures stored in liquid nitrogen where even time stands still in case the mother returns to implant another one of her children. If she does not, these very tiny children are orphaned to the concentration can of liquid nitrogen. They are in want of the warmth of life of their own mother or an adopted mother (infertile women are now routinely adopting human embryos and implanting them and carrying them to term and live birth).
Seeing is believing for most people. Like Nicodemus, we lack the faith to believe what we cannot see. Not until the human embryo grows to where she resembles a tiny baby in the sonogram do we recognize her as one of us – her sonogram picture being the earliest baby picture that all of us once were. But we lack the faith, and the wisdom to understand that the human embryo is fully human and not unlike a rose bud which if not nipped by some thoughtless prey will bloom into lovely, satisfying maturity.
Just as God sees the heart of the individual, God looks to and sees the heart of the nation. Those nations that continue to respect and honor Him receive his blessings. Those nations that do not respect and honor Him find that God removes His protective hand.
If ever there was a time to have the ‘Ancient of Days’ (the King of Heaven’s Armies) on our side, it is now! The sabers of nuclear war are being rattled in the East as well as the West (China, North Korea). But if we want God not to turn His back on us, we must not turn our back on Him.
God looks to the heart of the nation. Where is our nation’s heart in 2024? Are we embracing a ‘culture of life’ as we did following the world wars or are we becoming a ‘culture of death’? The states of these “United” States are divided (24/26) on the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child.
Dobb’s gave the preborn child unleavened bread. The Dobb’s court lacked the courage to rise to the occasion that the votes to overturn Roe afforded them and declare the equal humanity and personhood of the preborn child to be easily found in the nation’s Declaration of Independence – that inspired document admired worldwide that enshrines these immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”
The Declaration of Independence is greater than the Constitution. It is above the Constitution. It recites and provides the moral foundation upon which all else is built, including the rules and regulations for running the nation (known as the Constitution – excepting the amendments thereto which set forth principles upon which the government was to be based).
The inspiration for what our nation was to be about came from God through the pen of our forefathers in the Declaration of Independence. John W. Brabner-Smith (founder of the International School of Law, Washington, DC, now known as the George Mason University Law School), taught his students that the Declaration of Independence is really a Declaration of Dependence upon God.
In 1857, our U.S. Supreme Court chose to ignore those hallowed words in our Declaration of Dependence and held that the black slave was not person but property. 600,000 men of both the north and the south then bled and died before our nation got it right with the 14th amendment.
The devilish mischief was to use one word in that same 14th amendment; the word ‘person’ by which he seduced a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the personhood of the preborn child (Roe v. Wade). If the preborn child is not a person, you and I are not persons because we were once preborn children. And remember that Scripture teaches us that when the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her that she would conceive, he also told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth was in the sixth month of pregnancy.
It’s most important to remember what happened next. We are told that “Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb;” (Luke 1:39-41)
John the Baptist leapt in Elizabeth’s womb – the spirit, the soul, the personhood of John was leaping with joy at the spirit, the soul, the personhood of his Savior, Jesus Christ. We know this because Elizabeth, “filled with the Holy Ghost” (verse 41) exclaimed “And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.” (Luke 1:43-44) And the alacrity of the word ‘joy’! The unbelievable excitement of it is emphasized by the fact that this is the first time the word ‘joy’ is used in the New Testament. Here we see the Holy Spirit revealing that both of these preborn children are persons. One person is the Lord and the other person recognizes Him with alacrity.
The devilish mischief was to seduce the Roe court into holding that all preborn children were property not persons – the ‘property’ of the mother to do with as she wished.
Dr. Jerome Lejeune put it this way: “If you ask science, ‘What is a human being?’ science responds, ‘A human being is a member of our species.’ and if you ask science ‘What is a person?’ science responds, ‘A person is a human being alive.’ and science has no other answer.”
In Dr. Lejeune’s address to the Legislator’s Conference that we sent all of you at Christmas he made a very curious statement. You may wish to go back to the video and listen for it if you missed it.
“It is very interesting because after it [the fertilized human ovum] splits into 2 cells then it splits into 3 cells. We were expecting it would do 2, 4, 8, 16, and so on. It does not do that in nature and apparently, there is some discussion between the 3 cells. (We know that because of experiments with mice) and suddenly they realize, “We are not a collection of cells” because in my lab we have lots of cultures of cells which are taken from the body and never a baby is coming out of the incubator. But in the very beginning when they have the 3 cell stage, some ‘click’, some transmission of information between those 3 cells occurs and they decide, “We are an individual.”
And I said we know that by experiments with mice because we cannot mix more than 3 cell lines to have one embryo. In mice, you can take a cell from one embryo and from another one [and one other], mix them together in the zona pellucida, and see what comes out. It comes out a little mouse. (If you have taken a black embryo and a white embryo – she has on her chest fur a place for black [hair] and a place for white [hair].) You can do it with [a cell] from 3 different embryos, but with 4 [cells], it does not work.
This means that this stage of 3 cells which just follows the first division is an individualization system. It is very curious to see that you need a Trinity to define one hypostasis [a greek word meaning “individual existence”].”
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
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