"I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus,"
I'm sure the human fetus would chose to live, how about that??!!
Posted on 03/13/2009 7:07:00 AM PDT by GonzoII
.- A leading embryonic stem cell expert in Britain has called for organs from aborted babies to be used in transplants to increase the supply of organs available for donation, drawing criticism from pro-life and Christian groups who called the proposal “absolutely horrifying.”
Professor Sir Richard Gardner of Oxford University, an advisor to the Royal Society and the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, made his comments at an Oxford International Biomedical Center conference, the Daily Mail reports.
Expressing surprise that the possibility has not been considered, he said using fetal tissues for organ transplant is “probably a more realistic technique in dealing with the shortage of kidney donors than others.”
Experiments in mice, he said, have shown that fetal kidneys grow extremely quickly when transplanted into adult animals.
Using aborted fetuses “is something that could be done but it's not something that's talked about much.”
“It is at least a temporary solution,” he said, also calling for a study into the feasibility of such procedures.
Professor Stuart Campbell, a London obstetrician who argued for the abortion time limit to be lowered, had no ethical objections to the proposal, arguing that many babies were aborted quite late.
“If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs,” he claimed.
“I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus,” he told the Daily Mail.
Dr. Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship said the transplants would be immoral because every human being deserves “protection, respect, wonder and empathy.”
Josephine Quintavalle, of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, called the proposal “absolutely horrifying,” telling the Daily Mail:
“At what stage do you say to the woman who is to have an abortion, ‘Can we have some organs for transplant?’”
"I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus,"
I'm sure the human fetus would chose to live, how about that??!!
“At what stage do you say to the woman who is to have an abortion, ‘Can we have some organs for transplant?’”
She will then respond, “How much you going to give me and how many times can I do this?”
What’s next is implanting a woman with a dna matching embryo, letting it get to harvesting age and then the woman aborting to give big bro or sis a new organ.
We all know it’s going there.
Nope, no actual action,
just a speech about it.
I knew it was going to come to this. The profit motive will make embryonic stem cell harvesting an evil enterprise indeed.
Words fail me.
That’d be okay. He has such a soothing and melodic voice...
;^)
Yup.
“’If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs,’ he claimed.”
No. It’s a shame they are terminated in the first place. THIS is why we conservatives urged Obama never to go there, but sure as sh*t, he went there.
End times alert.
Leftists completely assume away the effects of the incentives this causes.
In other words, THEY DON’T SEE that this will cause an incentive for more aborted children for organ harvesting.
Not to worry. Barak Hussein Obama promises he won’t allow cloning experiments on embryos. And we all know how truthful he is.
I guess I am missing something here. If a child is aborted at say 20 weeks are their organs even developed enough or large enough to function in an adult human? It wouldn’t seem to me that they would be.
Oh, I don’t know. I’m pretty $ure there’$ a whole ho$t of ‘em who $ee it.
It’s already been done to a point in this country. Parents gave birth to a baby a few years ago so it could be used as marrow transplant donor for their teenage daughter.
As long as the baby signs an organ donor card, I have no problem with this one.
Otherwise, it is stealing, and stealing is a very bad thing.
The left consists of the Evil, and the Blind who follow them.
My guess is they understand exactly that it will give an incentive for increased abortions, and that that is one of the driving forces behind the idea.
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