Tue Aug 23, 2022 – 7:45 am EDTTue Aug 23, 2022 – 7:46 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – In 2005, Hollywood released a film titled The Island, a dystopian story about a group of people who live their strictly regimented lives in a facility. The story focuses on a worker named Lincoln Six Echo who, through a series of coincidences, discovers the horrifying truth about the facility he lives in and the fate he and his fellow residents face: They are clones created for the purpose of organ harvesting should those who paid for their creation ever need it. They are human beings, yes—but the sole purpose for their existence is to be a supply of spare organs and body parts.
A few years ago a pro-life leader noted in an interview that the film carried inherently anti-abortion messages. As it turns out, The Island could turn out to be prophetic, too. The Israel-based biotech firm Renewal Bio is hoping to create “synthetic” human embryos for the explicit purpose of harvesting their organs for both transplanting as well as treating infertility, aging, and genetic diseases. According to the New York Post, Renewal Bio has “claimed that it
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