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Using aborted babies' brains OK'd for lab tests
LifeNews.com ^ | 3/16/2012 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 03/19/2012 1:17:40 PM PDT by antidemoncrat

The Obama administration is getting grief from a pro-life group for approving an experiment using the remains of the bodies of unborn children victimized in abortion for research continues in U.S. laboratories.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: abortedbabies; labrests; obama; prolife
The "Baby Killer in Chief" is sure busy these days.
1 posted on 03/19/2012 1:17:56 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

It just gives the murderers on the left another excuse to abort a life.


2 posted on 03/19/2012 1:39:23 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: antidemoncrat

What will the liberals do when they finally find out that an aborted fetus really does have a brain and really is a human being?


3 posted on 03/19/2012 1:47:38 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: wagglebee

Ping!


4 posted on 03/19/2012 1:48:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: antidemoncrat

Just reminds me that this country has problems that will not be solved by a political change.


5 posted on 03/19/2012 1:56:16 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: antidemoncrat

I thought the reason it was ok to abort fetuses was because they weren’t really human.
Having a brain worthy of scientific study definatley counts as a good argument for humanity.
That shalt not kill unless its a not viable lifeform or an inconvience, or usefull for scentific study.


6 posted on 03/19/2012 2:01:25 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (In case of doubt: Attack! George S. Patton)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Even if they are human, that’s nothing special,
just the current result of random mutations and change driven by natural selection.

We wouldn’t be upset about using an animal’s brain for testing, now would we? I guess leftists would...

strange, that.


7 posted on 03/19/2012 2:04:21 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: antidemoncrat

I received this email last week listing companies allegedly using fetal cells from aborted babies.. Not sure if it’s true. Here it is:

The following products are manufactured using aborted fetal cells:

PEPSI BEVERAGES
- All Pepsi soft drinks
- Sierra Mist soft drinks
- Mountain Dew soft drinks
- Mug root beer and other soft drinks
- No Fear beverages
- Ocean Spray beverages
- Seattle’s Best Coffee
- Tazo beverages
- AMP Energy beverages
- Aquafina water
- Aquafina flavored beverages
- DoubleShot energy beverages
- Frappuccino beverages
- Lipton tea and other beverages
- Propel beverages
- SoBe beverages
- Gatorade beverages
- Fiesta Miranda beverages
- Tropicana juices and beverages

NESTLE PRODUCTS
- All coffee creamers
- Maggi Brand instant soups, bouillon cubes, ketchups, sauces, seasoning, instant noodles

KRAFT - CADBURY ADAMS PRODUCTS
- Black Jack chewing gum
- Bubbaloo bubble gum
- Bubblicious bubble gum
- Chiclets
- Clorets
- Dentyne
- Freshen Up Gum
- Sour Cherry Gum (Limited)
- Sour Apple Gum (Limited)
- Stride
- Trident

CADBURY ADAMS CANDIES
- Sour Cherry Blasters
- Fruit Mania
- Bassett’s Liquorice All sorts
- Maynards Wine Gum
- Swedish Fish
- Swedish Berries
- Juicy Squirts
- Original Gummies
- Fuzzy Peach
- Sour Chillers
- Sour Patch Kids
- Mini Fruit Gums

OTHER CADBURY ADAMS PRODUCTS
- Certs breath mints
- Halls Cough Drops

NEOCUTIS PRODUCTS
This company produces anti wrinkle creams that contain cells from a 14 week gestation aborted male baby. Following is the list of the creams, but we recommend a full boycott of all Neocutis Products.

-Bio-Gel Prevedem Journee
-Bio-Serum Lumiere
-Bio Restorative Skin Cream

VACCINES
-MMR II (Merck)
-ProQuad (MMR + Chickenpox — Merck)
-Varivax (Chickenpox — Merck)
-Pentacel (Polio + DTaP + HiB — Sanofi Pasteur)
-Vaqta (Hepatitis-A — Merck)
-Havrix (Hepatitis-A — Glaxo SmithKline)
-Twinrix (Hepatitis-A and B combo — Glaxo)
-Zostavax (Shingles — Merck)
-Imovax (Rabies — Sanofi Pasteur)

OTHER MEDICINES:
-Pulmozyme (Cystic Fibrosis — Genetech)
-Enbrel (Rheumatoid Arthritis — Amgen)

© Prevent Disease.com

Many opposing viewpoints have been raised on the morality of using consumer products which are cultivated on aborted fetal cell lines. Regardless of your position on abortion, the fact that there is an entire industry around the manufacture of foods, beverages and medical products which routinely utilize aborted fetal tissue should be a cause for great concern.

There has always been a great deal of excitement within the medical community regarding the use of fetal tissue for transplantation and for the manufacture of vaccines.

Fetal tissue technology has evolved tremendously in the two decades especially in the area of treating various neural and endocrinal diseases.

However, serious ethical questions are being raised as to the source and procurement of the necessary tissue. While some experts in the medical community forecast unlimited potential for fetal tissue technology, others have expressed deep concern as to the limits to the ethical and moral dynamics of the issue. Where is the line drawn?

The Economic Drive of Abortion

The world of economics runs on the basis of supply and demand. And this is perhaps the largest fear to approving fetal tissue research and transplants from elective aborted fetuses. While it is claimed that supply is sufficient to meet current demand - which is a tragedy in itself - what is to happen when researchers discover that the fetal tissue products can effectively treat a broader assortment of disease and illnesses? What happens when there is still not enough supply? While these questions may seem overstated, we should not underestimate the advances of medical technology or the moral corruption of modern society. Several proposals were brought to the National Institutes of Health Panel to protect babies from being procured for the motive of profit. Yet with an estimated annual income of six billion dollars, the potential for abuse in fetal tissue industry would be substantial, not to mention very difficult to regulate and enforce.
‘With the anticipated profitability of the industry once the technology can alleviate a larger number of diseases, there will be increasing pressures to “share the wealth” produced by these transplants.’ (Scott Rae, ibid)
Related to the supply of the fetus, is the supply of fresh and more mature fetuses. The timing of abortion becomes an important consideration to the researchers and medical community who benefit from a more matured and developed fetus. The majority of abortions procedures are performed between the sixth and eleventh weeks of pregnancy, however delaying until the fourteen to sixteenth weeks will yield fetal tissue that is usable in pancreatic transplants. Simply put, the older the fetus the more valuable! A subsequent concern of delaying the abortion procedures until the ‘ripe’ time period, is the emotional effects this will have for the mother. Aborting the unborn baby at four months old (as opposed to 6-11 weeks old) will compound the emotional impact on the mother resulting in a significant increase in post abortion trauma.

Avoiding Foods, Beverages and Vaccines Containing Aborted Fetal Cells

As recently as May, Pepsi ignored concerns and criticism from dozens of pro-life groups and tens of thousands of pro-life people who voiced their opposition to PepsiCo contracting with biotech company Senomyx even after it was found to be testing their food additives using fetal cells from abortions.

“The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,” the Senomyx web site says. “Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”

Debi Vinnedge, of the pro-life group Children of God for Life, explained,
“What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 — human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors. They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”
In August 2010, PepsiCo entered into a four-year agreement with Senomyx for the development of artificial high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo beverages. Under the contract, PepsiCo is paying $30 million to Senomyx for the research and future royalties on PepsiCo products sold using Senomyx technology. When the prolife group wrote both companies requesting they use one of several non-objectionable, viable cell lines listed in their patents, Senomyx did not respond. PepsiCo did reply however and insisted that its use of the research from Senomyx would produce “great tasting, lower-calorie beverages.”

Dave Mihalovic is a Naturopathic Doctor who specializes in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment.


8 posted on 03/19/2012 2:25:56 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Don't blame me; I voted for the American.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Can’t remember, but I believe an RA drug was implicated in lymphoma? Saw the lawyer ads on TV. My aunt had RA and died of lymphoma.


9 posted on 03/19/2012 3:49:34 PM PDT by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: quickquiver

Meant Aunt. Not a good proof reader, IMHO. As an aside, in 2000 Algore came to town to campaign. I went to a gag gift type store a bought an Algore mask. I went to the rally carrying a HUGH and series sign that read “AL GORE STILL EATS BABY BRAINS.”

Funny thing was, no matter where I stood, I was apparently on the wrong side of the street. Anyway, I believe they had to redirect the motorcade to accommodate for not getting that on the nightly news. Ha ha!!!


10 posted on 03/19/2012 4:08:26 PM PDT by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: throwback

Almost any change from what we now have would be better.


11 posted on 03/19/2012 4:51:41 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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