This time from Tanzania. According to several articles online from the New York Times as well as the BBC, albinos in Tanzania are being killed a mutilated. Witch doctors are using body parts from albinos in potions. It sounds similar to stories of poachers using rhinocerous horns or elephant tusks in various potions.
Some of you will take comfort and say this couldn't happen here. Farther down on this page is my post where a teenager died after his family relied on faith healing. Many people in this country reject modern medicine for different reasons. We had blogs (on the JT site) discussing vaccines.
Let's say Joe has a terminal illness. He meets a healer who claims to have a cure that he can get by killing a young man and harvesting bone marrow from him. Is it really a stretch to think that someone in this country would make that bargain?
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I don't believe it would be a stretch. I think some people have no sense of right or wrong... no conscience. Then, on the other hand, we have viable, fertilized embryos that are not being used to learn how to stop disease. Science always walks on the edge of what is morally ethical and sometimes it crosses that ethical line for highly religious people.
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