Posted on 03/16/2012 10:43:10 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Obama Admin OKs Using Aborted Babies’ Brains in Lab Tests
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 3/16/12 1:18 PM
The Obama administration is getting grief from a pro-life group for approving an experiment using the remains of the bodies of unborn children victimized in abortion for research continues in U.S. laboratories.
Scott Fischbach, the director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life uncovered the information showing a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses brain tissue from aborted unborn babies to treat macular degeneration. StemCells Inc. will inject fetal brain stem cells into the eyes of up to 16 patients to study the cells’ effect on vision.
In its press release announcing the clinical trial, StemCells Inc. was careful to refer to the fetal brain material as “purified human neural stem cell product” or HuCNS-SC cells, rather than “fresh human fetal brain tissue,” a description which can be found elsewhere on its website.
“StemCells Inc. is not using embryonic stem cells. A five-day-old human being at the embryonic stage does not have a brain, but a fetus at 10 or 20 weeks of development with visible fingers, toes and ears has a functioning brain,” said Fischbach. “Developing human beings in the womb are treated simply as raw material for laboratory experimentation by StemCells Inc. and other companies seeking to monetize aborted unborn children.”
In the press announcement, StemCells Inc. calls the use of the brains from babies killed in abortions “truly unique.”
“With the approval of this trial, we have accomplished something truly unique in the stem cell field, which is the extension of clinical testing of our proprietary human neural stem cell platform to all three elements of the central nervous system: the brain, spinal cord and eye,” said Martin McGlynn, President and CEO of StemCells, Inc. “The preclinical data supporting our IND is particularly compelling and we look forward to getting this trial underway.”
Fischbach said the dehumanization of nascent human life, applied to human embryos in order to justify the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, is now being applied to the harvesting of brain tissue from more developed unborn babies with functioning brains.
But he said the problem is not unique to StemCells Inc — pointing out that the misleadingly-named Birth Defects Research Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle is known within the research community as a top government distributor of fetal tissue.
The lab has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over four decades, according to a report in WORLD Magazine. The Puget Sound Business Journal stated that the lab “in 2009 filled more than 4,400 requests for fetal tissue and cell lines.” WORLD reports that the Seattle facility has retrieved the products of 22,000 pregnancies to date; the lab collects aborted fetuses from abortion centers across the country.
Experimental fetal stem cell treatments have yielded horrific results, he said.
Dr. David Prentice, an internationally recognized expert on stem cells and cloning, cites trials in which fetal stem cells have been used unsuccessfully to treat Parkinson’s disease. The New York Times called the outcome of a 2001 study “devastating” after “the patients writhed and jerked uncontrollably.” Another large clinical trial published in 2003 showed similar results.
“The use of morally illicit material in the biomedical industry violates the ‘do no harm’ principle that has governed the practice of medicine for millennia,” Fischbach said. “Adult stem cells offer the ethical and efficacious alternative. Unborn babies deserve dignity, not dissection and destruction.”
Locally, he said it is not known whether the University of Minnesota is experimenting with material from aborted fetuses, but it does use stem cells extracted from human embryos, which are killed in the process. Minnesota’s Human Conceptus Statute 145.422 prohibits the use of a living human conceptus for any type of research or experimentation.
“MCCL calls upon the U of M to pledge not to purchase or use fetal material in its research,” Fischbach added. “Such gruesome work violates human dignity and has no place in our state-funded institutions.”
We have never needed God’s grace more than now!
Is the whole world turning into a degenerate, insane place or just our country? My God, this is not going to end well, it can’t. These kind of things are an abomination. This made me sick to my stomach.
really should have been kept in breaking news...this story needs to be spread
It’s not the entire planet, it’s this country. We let them go to far, now it’s a long way back, maybe too long without some sort of CW or something drastic happening. There are still civilized countries, you just have to seek them out and perhaps to be prepared to live more simply.
I’m so disgusted right now. I’m ready pack it all up and move to greener pastures where human life is still sacred.
I think there’s a significant reason for that, as well.
I’ve heard that the rate of abortions has gone way down since the advent/improvement of ultrasounds.
It’s beyond diabolical .. satan’s handiwork (purposely lower case).
Please watch these movie trailers below the main screen as well .. encourage your family and friends to go see this new movie on March 23. Truthtelling, respect for life at its best and most beautifully, honestly told .. with a miraculous hand of God moment:
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Pray God hears our fervent prayers ..
I know I should but I just can’t bring myself to read the whole article. Just reading the comments is bringing tears to my eyes. God will ultimately judge these animals.
Yes. And I do not understand how people think using body parts of aborted humans is right-at all. No no no no!
HBO just stopped filming a show about horse racing, called “Luck,” b/c 3 horses have died during filming.
But babies, human babies, are killed by their mothers...and their poor baby bodies used in disgusting medical experiments.
I cannot even think to reach other women who think abortion is fine. My own sister is rabidly pro abortion, yet treats her child like the king of the world. Which she should. But does another child not even have a chance at life?
Perhaps we don’t deserve such help and are beyond helping.
I hear you, FRiend. Which greener pastures do you have in mind, if I may ask?
May God in Heaven have mercy upon this nation...forgive us, Father, we have sinned.
he’s a cannibal
truly it is satan’s work. He needed someone to work through and he has one in zero.
We have crossed that line so many times always imagining it can't get worse .. but then it does. I have still not recovered from yesterday's posting:
After IVF we became pregnant with triplets, but my wife wanted two of the babies aborted
Actually, considering Obama refused to sign the "Born Alive Act" to protect babies who survived an abortion, why should this be a surprise?
Dear God! What has happened to us? Life is so precious. You have freepmail.
God forgive us. God help us. If the Catholic church was ‘only’ worried about contraception, then they oughta come completely unglued realizing that tax dollars support this butchery.
Will this ever make it to the news....!?
Why don’t they just pay willing women to harvest their unborn babies for science and other products? Why is this any different?
Human beings are commodities to these people. In the U.S., didn’t the 14th Amendment end this?
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