Posted on 03/16/2012 10:43:10 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Obama Admin OKs Using Aborted Babies’ Brains in Lab Tests
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 3/16/12 1:18 PM
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.
Scott Fischbach, the director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life uncovered the information showing a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses brain tissue from aborted unborn babies to treat macular degeneration. StemCells Inc. will inject fetal brain stem cells into the eyes of up to 16 patients to study the cells’ effect on vision.
In its press release announcing the clinical trial, StemCells Inc. was careful to refer to the fetal brain material as “purified human neural stem cell product” or HuCNS-SC cells, rather than “fresh human fetal brain tissue,” a description which can be found elsewhere on its website.
“StemCells Inc. is not using embryonic stem cells. A five-day-old human being at the embryonic stage does not have a brain, but a fetus at 10 or 20 weeks of development with visible fingers, toes and ears has a functioning brain,” said Fischbach. “Developing human beings in the womb are treated simply as raw material for laboratory experimentation by StemCells Inc. and other companies seeking to monetize aborted unborn children.”
In the press announcement, StemCells Inc. calls the use of the brains from babies killed in abortions “truly unique.”
“With the approval of this trial, we have accomplished something truly unique in the stem cell field, which is the extension of clinical testing of our proprietary human neural stem cell platform to all three elements of the central nervous system: the brain, spinal cord and eye,” said Martin McGlynn, President and CEO of StemCells, Inc. “The preclinical data supporting our IND is particularly compelling and we look forward to getting this trial underway.”
Fischbach said the dehumanization of nascent human life, applied to human embryos in order to justify the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, is now being applied to the harvesting of brain tissue from more developed unborn babies with functioning brains.
But he said the problem is not unique to StemCells Inc — pointing out that the misleadingly-named Birth Defects Research Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle is known within the research community as a top government distributor of fetal tissue.
The lab has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over four decades, according to a report in WORLD Magazine. The Puget Sound Business Journal stated that the lab “in 2009 filled more than 4,400 requests for fetal tissue and cell lines.” WORLD reports that the Seattle facility has retrieved the products of 22,000 pregnancies to date; the lab collects aborted fetuses from abortion centers across the country.
Experimental fetal stem cell treatments have yielded horrific results, he said.
Dr. David Prentice, an internationally recognized expert on stem cells and cloning, cites trials in which fetal stem cells have been used unsuccessfully to treat Parkinson’s disease. The New York Times called the outcome of a 2001 study “devastating” after “the patients writhed and jerked uncontrollably.” Another large clinical trial published in 2003 showed similar results.
“The use of morally illicit material in the biomedical industry violates the ‘do no harm’ principle that has governed the practice of medicine for millennia,” Fischbach said. “Adult stem cells offer the ethical and efficacious alternative. Unborn babies deserve dignity, not dissection and destruction.”
Locally, he said it is not known whether the University of Minnesota is experimenting with material from aborted fetuses, but it does use stem cells extracted from human embryos, which are killed in the process. Minnesota’s Human Conceptus Statute 145.422 prohibits the use of a living human conceptus for any type of research or experimentation.
“MCCL calls upon the U of M to pledge not to purchase or use fetal material in its research,” Fischbach added. “Such gruesome work violates human dignity and has no place in our state-funded institutions.”
Next, we`ll see women being offered stimulus $ to abort their babies in order to harvest brain cells.
What`s happening in this country is shocking.
Please ping me with your response. I have come to a preliminary conclusion that there are no greener pastures.
I`m thinking along the same lines.
Interesting how “American” billionaires are spending million$ trying to force Ireland to abandon its ban on abortion. The Irish, with all their faults, know that once you cross into the darkside of legalized abortion, the ostensibly “safe, legal and rare” practice becomes an industry.
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Don’t commie progessives bathe in aborted fetus blood as they praise their dark lord?
They'd be better off transplanted into Biden and most of Obama's Cabinet secretaries.
The government supports the murder business. The bigger the government, the more dangerous to the lives of the citizens.
*****What good is having lots of money if your kids/grandkids grow up to be faithless, self-induldgent, sex obsessed, big leftist? Part of us, lives on in our kids and grandkids. We have to protect them at all costs.*****
Indeed.
“For what profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”
God’s blessings on this country will only come back, when we turn back to Him.
It is difficult for us who know what will happen if God should totally abandon us to this culture of death.
Make no mistake, God has allowed this country to suffer under the leadership of Obama. Unless, and until we call upon His name, we will suffer even worse to come.
(from the movie LEGION)
When I was a little girl, my mother would remind me each night before bed to open up my heart to God, for he was kind, merciful and just.
Things changed when my father left a few years later,leaving her to raise me and my brothers in a place on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
She never talked of a kind, merciful God again. Instead she spoke of a prophecy. Of a time when all the world
would be covered in darkness and the fate of Mankind
would be decided.
One night I finally got up the courage to ask my mother why God had changed, why he was so mad at his children.
“I don’t know,” she said, tucking the covers around me, “I guess he just got tired of all the bullshit.”
God is faithful and true.
He is kind and merciful and just.
He hasn’t changed, we have and any suffering to come will be because we have spurned Him and He will leave us to the consequences of our actions.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
O-o-o-o-o——scary but accurate.
“”Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
No Dictatorships are. The destroy hope, and incentive...just like an opiate.
I see the same man, either way....
Nice one...
Yes, another good point...
A big Amen to that, BG.
So do I, Dr S; so do I.
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