<><> the Clinton Foundation
<><> and/or The Clinton Foundation's multiple offshoots.
<><> Hillary Clinton's present campaign
<><> Hillary Clinton's previous campaigns
<><> Bill Clinton's campaigns.
AND whether the billionaire Clintons have a financial interest in companies selling baby body parts.
Looking at the California connections.
Ref:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1306761/posts
ITEM 3: Alan G. Fantel, Ph.D., of the University of Washington (Seattle) Department of Pediatrics and Central Laboratory for Human Embryology is listed on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) web site as the contact person in charge of the government’s clearinghouse for “human embryonic and fetal tissues.” Since the fetal tissue procurement story broke, Dr. Fantel has been inundated with inquiries about the nature of NIH involvement.
The clearinghouse is still operating, but business has dropped to only about 10-15 embryos or fetuses per week. Dr. Frankel’s office has a grant from NIH to accept tissues from hospitals and abortion clinics and to distribute tissues to grant-funded sites (excluding for-profits, such as pharmaceutical companies).
Dr. Fantel explained that there is a non-profit corporation in California that is “supplying pharmaceutical companies” with fetal organs and tissues. Over the past 35 years, the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology (CLHE) has supplied several hundred laboratories.
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Another protocol is up-front about the researchers’ profit motive. Systemix, a California-based firm, wanted aborting mothers to know that any fetal tissue donated “is for research purposes which may lead to commercial applications.”
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4/01/01: California Reps. Henry Waxman, Anna Eshoo, and Lois Capps peppered Mr. Alberty with accusatory questions that Mr. Schwartz says “blew his credibility to shreds within minutes.”
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In any case, Bill Clinton’s first official act as president in 1993 was to strike down the ban. People were demanding to be “treated” with fetuses. California lawyer Joan Samuelson had founded the Parkinson Action Network (PAN) in 1990 to lobby for an end to the moratorium. “Will lifting the ban save us in time?” she asked when it was abolished, and she began lobbying for an accelerated grant review process for fetal-tissue transplant research.
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UC California, State of California, and Others Harvest Dead Babies for Research
By Maggie Garcia
Despite federal laws prohibiting the selling of fetal tissue, some in the abortion industry are ignoring the law in pursuit of revenue.
Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics recently exposed two businesses that sell baby body parts to the burgeoning biomedical research field. One company that supplies fetal tissue to Nothern California researchers is the Anatomic Gift Foundation. But perhaps the most well-known supplier is a company called Opening Lines. The company was thrust into the spotlight last month as the subject of an ABC 20/20 story. The episode showed Opening Lines’ founder, Dr. Miles Jones, discussing the profit in selling fetal parts to researchers. “If you have a guy that’s desperate for, let’s say, a heart, then he’ll pay you whatever you ask,” he said.
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Life Dynamics identified several Northern California researchers who ordered fetal body parts from the Anatomical Gift Foundation and Opening Lines. A review of purchase orders from both the Anatomical Gift Foundation and Opening Lines showed what body parts researchers were most interested in. One purchase order, which was classified as a “confidential protocol” came from South San Francisco-based Genentech, Inc. Greg Solar, a researcher with the publicly traded multinational company, requested “limbs, liver, thymus, (prenatal) (limbs 21+), (Thymus & Liver 17+). The purchase order outlined how the tissue was to be used: “Human fetal tissue will be used for the generation of SCID mice ... a SCID mouse is engrafted with either a human bone marrow fragment, thymus/liver graft or a lymph node. These mice will then be used to study hemogobinopatheis in vivo. Currently this model is the best available means of evaluating the biology of human hematopoietic stem cells”.
According to a Genetech press release, “Genetech, Inc. is a leading international biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceuticals for significant unmet medical needs”.
When I called Greg Solar, the Genetech researcher who had requested the fetal parts for comment, the number listed on the purchase order was no longer in service. A call to Genetech’s corporate communications department also did not yield a response. The phone numbers given on the press release had a recording that said “The PCS customer you have called is not available at this time”.
The University of California at San Francisco researcher, Dr. Deborah Froh, also ordered fetal tissue. Dr. Froh’s purchase order requested “Lung 14-24 (will specify with each request).” The 14-24 presumably means a lung from a 14-24 week old preborn baby. Dr. Froh used the lungs for “Ontogeny and regulation of surfactant components in human fetal lung. Premature infants lack surfactant for adequate ventilation”. A call to the number listed on Dr. Froh’s purchase order was routed to an answering message with the following message: “Hello, this is Debbie Froh. I am no longer with at the University of California.” The California Medical Board records for Dr. Froh indicate that her medical license is delinquent and “a citation and or fine had been levied.” The fine was levied because Dr. Froh failed to inform the medical board of her change of address. Records show that Dr. Froh’s last address was in Crozet, Virginia.
Dr. Heidi Horner, associate director for CNS Pharmacology at Athena Neurosciences in South San Francisco requested “Intact brains preferred but large pieces of brain may be usable....” Dr. Horner’s purchase order said that the tissue would be used to “test the effects of endogenous and exogenous neurotoxins on cultured ventral mesencephalic neurons. This will hopefully lead to a better understanding of neurodegenerative processes. The end goal is to discover treatments for Parkinson’s disease.”
Athena Neurosciences, Inc. is listed with the California secretary of state’s office as a stock company. Last year, Athena Neurosciences, Inc., along with Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. sued the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, was for patent infringement. Robert Hillman, an attorney with the Menlo Park law firm of Fish & Richardson, who represented the defendants, was unavailable for comment on the lawsuit. Dr. Horner could not be reached at the phone number she gave on her purchase order.
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The California department of health services also seems to be buying pre-born baby parts. A “confidential protocol” by Dr. John F. Krowka at the California Department of Health Services Berkeley facility showed him ordering “liver, thymus & skin 18-24 wks.” Dr. Krowka ordered the tissue to study “liver/thymus: molecular and biomechanical mechanisms of cell death of human lymphocytes, cell surface markers and stimuli that can trigger cell death and activation in vitro. Will also be transplanted into immunodeficient mice for in vivo study....”
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Previously:
https://www.sexualhealthinnovations.org/about/board
Deborah Nucatola
is Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Following her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Nucatola completed a Fellowship in Family Planning Clinical Care and Research at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Nucatola has been active in family planning research since 2002 and has authored 2 textbook chapters and numerous journal articles. In addition to her administrative position at PPFA, Dr. Nucatola continues to provide clinical care in both New York and Los Angeles and enjoys educating medical students, residents, fellows, physicians and advanced practice clinicians. She has stayed active in research as Associate Medical Director for Research at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, and with the Research Division of the California Family Health Council.
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Today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315802/posts
But Nancy Pelosi is not interested, as The Hill reports. Instead, she wants the pro-life group investigated and says they are creating a “false controversy” where non supposedly exists:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday joined calls for a federal investigation into the California-based anti-abortion group that sparked the Planned Parenthood hidden camera controversy.
“Let’s have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn’t exist,” Pelosi said Thursday in her first public remarks about Planned Parenthood since the first undercover video surfaced last week.
A long-time abortion rights champion, Pelosi dismissed accusations that Planned Parenthood has raked in profits from its fetal tissue donation program.
“Planned Parenthood has said that they have done nothing illegal,” she said. “They do not ever charge, which would be illegal, for fetal tissue. They have only defrayed the cost of mailing that to someone, which is not breaking the law.”
She also criticized the selectively edited videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, pointing to the “disparities” between actual film and edited versions.
Pelosi dismissed the GOP’s attacks against Planned Parenthood, which she said “has been going on for a long time.”
She said government investigators should, instead, focus on the legality of the Center for Medical Progress’s political activity, backing an effort by several House Democrats who have called for a Department of Justice probe.
“They’ve been out to get Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember,” the California Democrat said. “This is about women’s health. Planned Parenthood has said they have done nothing anything illegal.”