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Use Aborted Children to Make up Shortfall of Transplant Organs: Oxford Stem Cell Expert
LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/12/09 | Hilary White

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



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; biodeathics; bioethics; cannibalism; cultureofdeath; deatheaters; escr; moralabsolutes; organharvesting; prolife; soylentgreen; stemcells; utilitarianism
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To: batter
Wasn't Arnold in a similar movie about cloning?

This is just sick...

81 posted on 03/12/2009 3:19:14 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: wagglebee

Just wait until “Sir” Richard and his ilk start advocating the use of aborted babies as food replacement. Of course, the pro-abortion vegetarians and animal rights activists would probably go for that.


82 posted on 03/12/2009 3:56:43 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: wagglebee

Aborted babies are already sold to research organizations. This has been going on for years. One of the reasons abortion is big business.


83 posted on 03/12/2009 4:01:46 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: GourmetDan
Didn't I see a case of something like this about 10? years ago. Here in the US
84 posted on 03/12/2009 4:09:47 PM PDT by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: wagglebee

It is getting so bad that I can’t imagine it will continue this road for too long. Something will have to change.


85 posted on 03/12/2009 4:23:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gama Tamasi Ma Jyotir Gama)
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To: Vigilanteman

I don’t think too much longer.


86 posted on 03/12/2009 4:24:08 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gama Tamasi Ma Jyotir Gama)
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To: wagglebee

Revolting!!! Are we living in some sick Science fiction movie?


87 posted on 03/12/2009 4:25:12 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: wagglebee

What’s next? Paying women to have late term abortions and paying them for the organs. DISGUSTING!


88 posted on 03/12/2009 4:26:53 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: All
Pinged from Terri Dailies


89 posted on 03/12/2009 4:37:44 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Unless the donor freeing and willingly gives them. Of course, an unborn child does not have that option. The mother, of course, can speak for the child and I predict that there will be a time when a child is conceived and is ready to be aborted, that the mother can and will collect a fee.


90 posted on 03/12/2009 4:43:44 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

It’s not just morally a problem but also legal. The whole idea of taking organs from someone without consent is absurd. Your body does not belong to anyone else. There is no “right” to access or use of organs from your body. They are treating them like property, like objects. It’s disgusting.


91 posted on 03/12/2009 4:49:43 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: wagglebee

For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.


92 posted on 03/12/2009 4:50:40 PM PDT by Litany (Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ orders.)
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To: Slapshot68

And if you resort to creating life to destroy it, you’re makin zombies.


93 posted on 03/12/2009 4:52:59 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: wagglebee

It’s Unit 731 all over again.


94 posted on 03/12/2009 5:19:41 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: topher
Don't forget to give the United Way so that aborted baby organs can be funded or embryonic stem cell research can be treated...


95 posted on 03/12/2009 5:34:11 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: mojitojoe

Imagine every horror that you can imagine and it will happen.


96 posted on 03/12/2009 5:48:54 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Toespi

I imagine that there will come a time when mothers sell their 3 year old toddlers to a harvesting mill where they are mutilated without anesthetic. Contractors will be hired to construct sound-proof (scream proof) walls.


97 posted on 03/12/2009 5:51:00 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

It’s easy. All they have to do is believe that you are not human.


98 posted on 03/12/2009 5:51:53 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: wagglebee

Just think how much money Octomom could get right now...


99 posted on 03/12/2009 6:11:41 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: wagglebee
use of aborted children in organ transplants as a solution to the shortage of available organs

That's what it's all about.

100 posted on 03/12/2009 6:19:28 PM PDT by GVnana
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