Posted on 03/12/2009 1:43:27 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, March 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Oxford University stem cell expert has urged the use of aborted children in organ transplants as a solution to the shortage of available organs. Sir Richard Gardner has called for a feasibility study on the possibility of obtaining organs from the bodies of aborted babies.
He said, "It is probably a more realistic technique in dealing with the shortage of kidney donors than others."
The Daily Mail reports that pro-life and Christian groups have called the proposal "morally abhorrent," and said it will result in abortions being timed to suit transplant patients.
Dr Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said the transplants would be immoral as every human being, even the unborn, deserved "protection, respect, wonder and empathy."
Fears that this suggestion will create a trade in aborted children have their justification in the work of US pro-life groups who have in the past uncovered the relationship between the abortion industry and the trade in aborted body parts for medical research and the creation of vaccines. (See: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/nov/07113008.html)
In 2005, the trade in aborted fetuses made headlines after reports came from Ukraine that newborn babies were disappearing from maternity wards to fuel the increasing demand for body parts. One Ukrainian research institute was advertising fetal body parts, such as "Foetus spleen cells," and "fragments of foetus spine," for sale in medical research.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Premature Live Babies Taken from Ukraine Maternity Wards Sold For Body Parts?
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/sep/05091207.html
Use of Abortion Victim's Body Parts for Research Has Become Major Industry
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/nov/07113008.html
Trafficking in Body Parts a Natural Extension of De-Humanizing Abortion Culture
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/aug/04080302.html
Sorry; this is just plain wrong.
I am a transplant recipient, and am very much pro-organ donation when organs are obtained legitimately AND consent is given, but am very much against schemes such as this and “presumed consent” (another ridiculous movement in the UK which makes everyone a potential organ donor unless they “opt out”).
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at least five Filipine Overseas Foreign workers who were "comatose" have had organs removed...don't know if they were comatose or dead....
I find it curious that something the pro-aborts call “non-human globs of cells” could possess much-coveted, full-grown and functional human body organs. Kind of puts the lie to their justification for abortion in the first place, no?
With the $$ his economy has taken from us, even with the whopping $15, it's still.... pretty much of a loss. So I forked out the $50 for the keyboard, which I so wish I could blame on another FReeper for a funny post that forced me to spew a hot liquid upon it, but alas, it was me: blonde enough to actually attempt, fatally, a cleansing swipe of a Clorox cleaning wipe upon my keyboard.
I never thought about it. I thought it was a phony hypothetical for the abortion crowd, because it is much faster to do a C section to save a dying mother. I never would have thought in a million years that there would be enough cruelty in the world to think that partial birth was for the exact effect of saving a perfectly healthy but unwanted baby’s parts for another child. Ghastly if this is true.
Not that I can recall, but it wouldn't surprise me since it's the 'logical' next step.
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