COG Stem Cell update--Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines.

Children of God for Life ^ | 1-6-04 | Debi Vinnedge

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Children of God for Life -- Vaccine Update January 2004

- Chiron Corporation and Japanese to meet this month!
- Children of God for Life to meet in DC on fair labeling legislation
- CMA, Pharmacists for Life and Protection of Conscience Project support legislation
- Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines in medical research
- Single dose vaccines - help us build our database of pro-life doctors!

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- Chiron Corporation and Japanese to meet this month! At long last, Chiron Corporation's vaccine division in Italy will meet with the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo Japan late this month to discuss the proposed distribution of their new untainted MMR and single dose rubella vaccine. Delays came due to the acquisition by Chiron of PowerJect, a UK pharmaceutical company. Children of God for Life has written to support the proposed business venture: www.cogforlife.org/chiron.htm We will keep you updated with our progress - which looks extremely promising, especially in light of the following...

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- Children of God for Life will meet to discuss fair labeling legislation in DC For the past several months we have been working with the pro-life lobby in Washington DC to request new legislation that would disclose any product using aborted fetal or embryonic cell lines under a "fair labeling and informed consent" law. This would mean that ANY product using such cell lines would require full disclosure to the consumer, doctor and pharmacist in order to protect the right of conscience. In light of the recent disastrous NJ cloning bill (headquarters to many pharmaceutical companies) we will meet on Jan. 20th in Washington. This critical legislation could have the potential to stop many firms from pursuing illicit lines of research. It would also give a huge economic edge to those companies that offer ethical alternatives...such as Chiron! For more info on the NJ bill: http://www.cogforlife.org/njcloning.htm

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- CMA, Pharmacists for Life and Protection of Conscience Project support legislation The Catholic Medical Association has thrown its weight behind this legislation along wtih Pharmacists for Life and the Protection of Conscience Project. We need every medical professional - every pro-life organization - every concerned American to join us in this most important task! This is an election year and while bills have a tendency to lag, urgent help will be needed in the coming weeks and months to push this from every person supporting our Campaign. Watch for the next special report to see how you can help. Our meeting is scheduled for Jan. 20th and we will report back to you with the results after the March for LIfe.

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- Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines in medical research Thanks to Children of God for Life's Illinois Chapter, we were alerted that aborted fetal cell lines MRC-5, WI-38, IMR-90 and HEK (human embryonic kidney) were being used at Georgetown University's Medical Research Center. Children of God for Life immediately contacted Cardinal Theodore McCarrick at the Archdiocese of Washington DC to voice our concerns. We are pleased to announce that Cardinal McCarrick has written to notify us that "the problem has been resolved." Further checking reveals that all objectionable cell lines have indeed been removed from GU's tissue culture bank inventory.

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- Single dose vaccines - help us build our database of pro-life doctors! Many of you have written to let us know you had problems finding doctors willing to order single dose vaccines due to the 10 dose minimum order. While we have had a great deal of success linking pro-life doctors to patients we still are lacking in many areas of the country. Please let us know if your doctor has ordered the vaccines, if he/she is willing to help other patients, your city/state and how your doctor may be contacted.

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Many thanks to all of you for your donations, letters and prayers! Look for us at the March for Life Convention Center at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill!

God bless,

Debi Vinnedge, Director

Children of God for Life

Anyone wishing to make a tax-free donation to support our efforts may do so by writing to us at: Children of God for Life 2130 Catalina Dr Clearwater, FL 33764

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Ah, Georgetown--that glorious beacon of Jesuit Spirit, The Society of Jesus. With special vows of obedience to the Pope...."Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines"

Saint Ignatius Loyola, Pray for us.

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Please help keep it that way. Make a donation!

[GrandEagle]

Bump - Reference

[MHGinTN]

Sadly, so many children have been inoculated with the fetal abortion derived vaccines.

[MHGinTN]

Glorious New Year, GE!

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Stem Cell update--Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines.

(In Granny voice) Oh my, such nice, faithful young people.

Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

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It's a sick freepin nightmare I tell ya. And of all places a "Catholic" institution.

2 years ago we picketed at Loyola Law school in New Orleans as they were honoring Kim Gandy, president of NOW.

Saint Ignatius should order-up some mega-sized lighting bolts for these Apostates.

Everyone of those sick SOB's (Son's of Baal) need to be Publicly excommunicated. Then put on the Rack. Then re-excommunicated with extreme hollow point prejudice.

How utterly nauseating!

[cpforlife.org]

PING, and bring a barf bag.

[uncbob]

I quit donating to my so called Catholic Alsa Mater back during the Vietnam War

If more conservative alumni both at Catholic abd Secular institutions quit giving they would soon correct their left wing BS

But alas as long as the football or basketball teams win the money flows

[Coleus]

I'm surprised it took so long since this priest, Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD, is a faculty member and researcher there. 2 doctorates one in ethics the other in microbiology.

http://www.stemcellresearch.org/

[ArrogantBustard]

You're right, they should never have started in the first place ... But is your glass always half empty?

We are pleased to announce that Cardinal McCarrick has written to notify us that "the problem has been resolved." Further checking reveals that all objectionable cell lines have indeed been removed from GU's tissue culture bank inventory.

[firebrand]

Georgetown is one tough university, but they need to get back to their Catholic roots. Everyone must take a course called "Problem of God." Ooooo-kay. If I were seventeen, I would be looking at Franciscan University, in Ohio, not Georgetown.

[George from New England]

The fact that something had to be "Stopped" that shouldn't ever had been "started" here scares me.

Was this the college that in 2003 had that Black cardinal speak at commencement? And wasn't this the school where the administration "apologized" because it was "too pro-life"

Too many CINO in the USA.

[firebrand]

I remember the black cardinal but not what he said. Didn't he say something correct, and it was the faculty members who walked off the dais that caused the commotion? Don't remember the university apologizing for being too pro-life either. But I believe they backed the student newspaper when it fired an editorial writer for criticizing "The Vagina Monologues," which had been produced at the universtiy.

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"But is your glass always half empty?"

AB, If you are asking if I am an eternal pessimist, the answer is no. I am an observant realist.

Moreover, mine is not a glass, it's a plastic cup, about the size of a "Biggie" from Wendy's.

[George from New England]

I found the thread ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/923360/posts

[George from New England]

Like It or Not: Cardinal Arinze at Georgetown
Chuck Colson (back to web version)

June 4, 2003

Parents and students attending this year’s commencement at Georgetown University, a Catholic school, would surely expect to hear a commencement address that took Catholic teaching seriously. And that’s what they got. But many in the crowd were offended, even outraged.

The commencement speaker was Francis Cardinal Arinze, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The dean who invited Arinze expected him to speak about the relationship between Christianity and Islam, especially in places like the Cardinal’s native Nigeria.

Instead, Cardinal Arinze told Georgetown’s class of 2003 that "happiness is found not in the pursuit of material wealth or pleasures of the flesh, but by fervently adhering to religious beliefs." Warming to his task, he then told graduates and guests about the importance of the family in Christian faith and life.

He said that "in many parts of the world, the family is under siege" as a result of what he called "an anti-life mentality [that can be seen] in contraception, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia." Instead of being honored, the family is "scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions, and cut in two by divorce."

Well, that’s a very Catholic message one might expect from a Catholic cardinal. But it proved too much for many in the audience. Teresa Sanders, a professor of theology, left the stage during Arinze’s remarks. Seventy other faculty members signed a letter to the dean protesting what one of them called Arinze’s "wildly inappropriate" remarks. Really? As a result, the dean apologized for the Cardinal’s remarks and the "hurt" they caused.

This incident speaks volumes about the spiritual and moral condition of the West. As historian Philip Jenkins has written, the numerical and geographical heart of Christianity has shifted from the West to the developing world. One result of this shift is that, as was predicted, Christians from Africa are now evangelizing Europe and America, instead of the other way around.

Thus, we see Anglican bishops from Africa standing against Western apostasy by ordaining American clergy who will uphold historic Christian teaching on faith and morals. And we see Cardinal Arinze pointing out the damage being wrought by the West’s forsaking of these teachings.

The response to the Cardinal shows just how phony all the rhetoric about "tolerance" really is. Tolerance originally meant allowing people whom you believed to be wrong to live according to their beliefs without fear of reprisal.

It then mutated into the idea that all beliefs are equally valid. While this was mistaken, at least it allowed for the possibility that Christians might publicly express their beliefs. Now "tolerance" means that no one—other than Christians—should ever hear anything that contradicts what they think, or otherwise upsets them. This is especially true if the subject is human sexuality.

This bogus definition of tolerance is why the dean felt the need to apologize for what the Cardinal said. Fortunately, our African brethren think otherwise. They take their faith seriously—seriously enough to tell the truth about the state of our souls, whether we like it or not.

There is hope in Africa, if not in Georgetown.

[George from New England]

The liberal school's response...

Seventy other faculty members signed a letter to the dean protesting what one of them called Arinze’s "wildly inappropriate" remarks.

As a result, the dean apologized for the Cardinal’s remarks and the "hurt" they caused.

[MHGinTN]

There is a balm in Gilead ...

[Salvation]

**- Georgetown University stops use of aborted fetal cell lines in medical research**

Good news!