With a woman at Look at Culture from a Christian World View on John Stone Street with a point,

recently, a Virginia judge ruled that human embryos should legally be considered chattel

or property.

Liberal scholars and an Associated Press article denounced the ruling.

For example, Susan Crock and a lawyer and scholar at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute

of Ethics, and an expert and reproductive technology law, rightfully called the judge's decision

repulsive and morally repugnant.

But her moral shock was not because a human being could be considered chattel, as she's already

expressed elsewhere, she's against the legal protection of human embryos as persons.

Instead, she was repulsed that the judge would rely on pre-civil war of Virginia law concerning

chattel slaves.

In other words, folks like Crock and Miss the Force for the Trees, after all, the very

same desecration of human dignity that made slavery morally repulsive then undergirds

this new trade in human chattel today.

People are never property.

No matter how small.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.