Re: 4 years with 'pig cell' therapy

[KEn Becker <KenBecker@xxxxxxx>]

Marjorie, this may be of interest to you: There was a decision made by
someone qualified (I don't recall who or even from what country...) that if a
Jew needed a heart valve, for example, from a pig, it was acceptable as is
anything that saves a life. It is also allowed for a Jewish person to to
drive or do work on the Sabbath, if necessary to save a life or protect a
life. I don't know why pigs are used instead of some other animal, to provide
donor cells or organs for humans. I assume they are somehow more compatible?
I also feel sort of sad for an animal that must give it's life to save a
person, but it sure is more noble than becoming a pork chop, eaten and then
becoming human waste....... And another subject: in the early days many
animals were sacrificed for religious reasons, I can't help but wonder why
God would make a perfectly good animal and then want it to be destroyed to
please Him........  I guess this is why ultra religious people of most faiths
spend much time reading and discussing the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. to
decide how to interpret the Word of God!
Something else: many modern day words such as "Stem Cells" ,"automobile",
"birth control" , are not present in the Bible, so how can we interpret the
Bible as prohibiting or regulating any of the above?  I can guarantee that
someone will have an answer for that!
Ken