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
This is just sick...
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.
Aborted babies are already sold to research organizations. This has been going on for years. One of the reasons abortion is big business.
It is getting so bad that I can’t imagine it will continue this road for too long. Something will have to change.
I don’t think too much longer.
Revolting!!! Are we living in some sick Science fiction movie?
What’s next? Paying women to have late term abortions and paying them for the organs. DISGUSTING!
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.
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.
For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
And if you resort to creating life to destroy it, you’re makin zombies.
It’s Unit 731 all over again.
Imagine every horror that you can imagine and it will happen.
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.
It’s easy. All they have to do is believe that you are not human.
Just think how much money Octomom could get right now...
That's what it's all about.
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