Posted on 03/06/2015 2:34:48 PM PST by xzins
Live Science reported in January on research being done by scientists at Ganogen, Inc., a biotech company in California, that transplants organs from aborted babies into lab rats with the goal of growing them for use in patients who need organ transplants.
“Researchers say they have developed a new technique that will get more kidneys to people who need transplants, but the method is sure to be controversial: The research shows that it is feasible to remove a kidney from an aborted human fetus, and implant the organ into a rat, where the kidney can grow to a larger size,” the Jan. 21 article stated.
In the article, Eugene Gu, a medical student at Duke University and the founder and CEO of the company, said "Our long-term goal is to grow human organs in animals, to end the human donor shortage.”
Although ending the human donor shortage seems like a noble cause, using aborted babies to solve the problem is not acceptable, according to pro-life activist and former labor and delivery nurse Jill Stanek.
"This is horrific on so many levels,” Stanek told CNSNews.com, calling it “abominable” to take organs from murdered pre-born babies to use in post-born humans.
“It is easy to see where this is heading: toward the day when human beings will be grown in the lab specifically for organ and tissue harvesting,” said Stanek, who has devoted herself to the pro-life cause after witnessing aborted babies who survived being left to die in the hospital where she worked.
Hank Greely, an ethical and legal expert on biomedical science at Stanford Law School, is quoted in the Live Science article as saying that the decision to have an abortion must not be linked to this kind of research.
"The key issues are the existence of the pregnant woman's consent and the total separation of the decision to abort from the decision to let the fetal remains be used in research," Greely told Live Science.
In other words, a woman must have already decided to have an abortion before she can be asked whether she is willing to donate the fetus for research, according to Live Science.
The article does not say where the research company obtained the aborted babies.
Its findings were published in the Jan. 22 edition of the American Journal of Transplantation.
The abstract of the article states: “Here we introduce a novel method of transplanting human fetal kidneys into adult rats. To overcome the technical challenges of fetal-to-adult organ transplantation, we devised an arterial flow regulator (AFR), consisting of a volume adjustable saline-filled cuff, which enables low-pressure human fetal kidneys to be transplanted into high-pressure adult rat hosts.
“By incrementally withdrawing saline from the AFR over time, blood flow entering the human fetal kidney was gradually increased until full blood flow was restored 30 days after transplantation. Human fetal kidneys were shown to dramatically increase in size and function. Moreover, rats which had all native renal mass removed 30 days after successful transplantation of the human fetal kidney were shown to have a mean survival time of 122 days compared to 3 days for control rats that underwent bilateral nephrectomy without a prior human fetal kidney transplant.”
Come quickly, Lord Jesus
“Astonishng New World” Astonishingly Bizarre that is
It’s hard to even put my mind around this kind of evil. Murderous, cruel, manipulative, and seductive all at the same time.
I feel sick reading this....really?
I mean, is there any shred of dignity left? Can people be so depraved?
I don’t even know what to do anymore, other than pray.
the headline reads like a tagline for a Bad Science Fiction Movie
“FUTURE HARVEST”
sadly these people are dead serious
The company is also planning on ending the lampshade shortage by using the skin of aborted fetus’ to . . . uh.
I am sick, too. Who is funding this abomination?
Ask the “Human Rights Campaign” homofacists where they stand on this issue of basic human rights.
Wow, who would ever have thunk these guys would harvest the organs from clumps of cells from innocent women’s wombs?
This is the very same kind of ethics that produces embryos for stem cells. Which leads to growing embryos to the point where they can harvest organs from them, most likely “for the children”. And eventually partial birth abortions and late term abortions where the dead babies that are now supposed to be killed if they live will be placed on life support in the parts rooms of various institutions that sell organs internationally.
Think I’m nuts?
This is what happens to a culture that does not recognize God as the giver of life. Our country will be brought to severe judgment for allowing the blasphemy of God to be taught as education to our youth. They will rue the day when their souls are harvested by God, as in Christ’s Parable of the Wheat and the Tares.
Sodom and Gomorrah got nuked.
What do we deserve?
Tell me about it, anybody who doubts pure evil is taking over this planet is just plain blind and stupid. Did you ever think you would ever see the day where a sitting US President would side more with radical Islam than Islamic countries? This is The Omen kind of crap, Damien is President. Taking sides against Israel in favor of Islamic psychopaths? And this Congress does NOTHING about it? It’s evil, it really is, that’s the only explanation. Evil has no rhyme or reason to it.
In this country?
In OUR country?
Pray, and I suggest we start using the last digits of your handle in a caliber.
This is absolutely insane. Evil must be confronted.
Every single soul deserves hell same as always... next question?
Now if you want to know about the arrangements that God has actually made, this is a different story. God never wanted us to fall back on what we deserved. That is a trip to hell for each and all.
No, you are not crazy. Christ would return to stop that. Such insanity would require a totally anti-Christian culture to rule.
death by slow fire
Oh I get it. See those babies lives weren’t in vain. They helped some rats live...
Only in the mind of liberals would that be considered normal...
Coming next... pregnancy farms to grow babies to abort for specialty foods. Just as sick as harvesting transplant organs. Needs to be stopped.
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