The big business of baby-part sales (Pres Clinton signs lucrative trafficking bill)

Pres Clinton signed the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993, expanding “fetal-tissue research” into a federally-subsidized, multi-million dollar industry selling human spare parts salvaged from abortions.

NIH tax-subsidizes the U of Washington human embryology lab to “supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days to term. Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage, and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators.” The notice is signed by Alan G. Fantel, Dept of Pediatrics.

Wholesalers of baby body parts to researchers, drug companies, hospitals and universities included (the now defunct) Opening Lines company, formerly located in West Frankfort, Illinois, harvests the parts from abortion clinics and ships them to their customers.

Opening Lines brochure tells prospective buyers, “We can provide the exact tissue to meet your needs. We obtain and maintain appropriate confidential consent and basic medical histories for fetal tissue donation. Our objective is to give you the highest quality products prepared to your specifications and delivered when you need it.” Opening Lines boasted of more than 1,500 deliveries of fetal parts per day.

Opening Lines gives credit to President Clinton for opening up the lucrative business in fetal tissue trade. According to Opening Lines, on January 22, 1993, Clinton lifted the moratorium on federal funding. “This action created a great demand for fetal tissue and has made possible the development of treatments for individuals afflicted with serious diseases and disorders,” says the sales brochure.

The "kind-hearted" Clintons assured us that
abortion would be "safe, legal and rare."

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The Clintons "forgot" to mention opening
the gates to the trafficking in baby body parts.

The "Opening Lines" company gave credit to President Clinton for opening up the lucrative business in fetal tissue trade.

According to the "Opening Lines" company, on January 22, 1993, Clinton lifted the moratorium on federal funding. “This action created a great demand for fetal tissue and has made possible the development of treatments for individuals afflicted with serious diseases and disorders,” says the sales brochure.

Opening Lines provides fetal tissue researchers with a “fee for service schedule,” which gives prices for each body part. For example, Opening Lines charged:

<><> $150 for a spinal column;

<><> $400 for an intact embryonic cadaver;

<><>$75 for 8-week-old baby's eyeballs (40% discount for a single eye);

<><>$150 for two arms or legs; and,

<><> $100 for the skin of a 12-week-old baby.

(Mmmmmm.... looks like they "forgot" to post the price of baby skin lampshades.)

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Now, more then ever---it is imperative that we determine whether the companies trafficing in baby body parts, their principles, subsidiaries, tangenital companies, and so on......contributed to:

<><> the Clinton Foundation

<><> and/or The Clinton Foundation's multiple offshoots.

<><> Hillary Clinton's present campaign

<><> Hillary Clinton's previous campaigns

<><> Bill Clinton's campaigns.

AND whether the billionaire Clintons have a financial interest in companies selling baby body parts.

Looking at the California connections.

Ref:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1306761/posts

ITEM 3: Alan G. Fantel, Ph.D., of the University of Washington (Seattle) Department of Pediatrics and Central Laboratory for Human Embryology is listed on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) web site as the contact person in charge of the government’s clearinghouse for “human embryonic and fetal tissues.” Since the fetal tissue procurement story broke, Dr. Fantel has been inundated with inquiries about the nature of NIH involvement.

The clearinghouse is still operating, but business has dropped to only about 10-15 embryos or fetuses per week. Dr. Frankel’s office has a grant from NIH to accept tissues from hospitals and abortion clinics and to distribute tissues to grant-funded sites (excluding for-profits, such as pharmaceutical companies).

Dr. Fantel explained that there is a non-profit corporation in California that is “supplying pharmaceutical companies” with fetal organs and tissues. Over the past 35 years, the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology (CLHE) has supplied several hundred laboratories.

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Another protocol is up-front about the researchers’ profit motive. Systemix, a California-based firm, wanted aborting mothers to know that any fetal tissue donated “is for research purposes which may lead to commercial applications.”

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4/01/01: California Reps. Henry Waxman, Anna Eshoo, and Lois Capps peppered Mr. Alberty with accusatory questions that Mr. Schwartz says “blew his credibility to shreds within minutes.”

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In any case, Bill Clinton’s first official act as president in 1993 was to strike down the ban. People were demanding to be “treated” with fetuses. California lawyer Joan Samuelson had founded the Parkinson Action Network (PAN) in 1990 to lobby for an end to the moratorium. “Will lifting the ban save us in time?” she asked when it was abolished, and she began lobbying for an accelerated grant review process for fetal-tissue transplant research.

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UC California, State of California, and Others Harvest Dead Babies for Research

By Maggie Garcia

Despite federal laws prohibiting the selling of fetal tissue, some in the abortion industry are ignoring the law in pursuit of revenue.

Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics recently exposed two businesses that sell baby body parts to the burgeoning biomedical research field. One company that supplies fetal tissue to Nothern California researchers is the Anatomic Gift Foundation. But perhaps the most well-known supplier is a company called Opening Lines. The company was thrust into the spotlight last month as the subject of an ABC 20/20 story. The episode showed Opening Lines’ founder, Dr. Miles Jones, discussing the profit in selling fetal parts to researchers. “If you have a guy that’s desperate for, let’s say, a heart, then he’ll pay you whatever you ask,” he said.

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Life Dynamics identified several Northern California researchers who ordered fetal body parts from the Anatomical Gift Foundation and Opening Lines. A review of purchase orders from both the Anatomical Gift Foundation and Opening Lines showed what body parts researchers were most interested in. One purchase order, which was classified as a “confidential protocol” came from South San Francisco-based Genentech, Inc. Greg Solar, a researcher with the publicly traded multinational company, requested “limbs, liver, thymus, (prenatal) (limbs 21+), (Thymus & Liver 17+). The purchase order outlined how the tissue was to be used: “Human fetal tissue will be used for the generation of SCID mice ... a SCID mouse is engrafted with either a human bone marrow fragment, thymus/liver graft or a lymph node. These mice will then be used to study hemogobinopatheis in vivo. Currently this model is the best available means of evaluating the biology of human hematopoietic stem cells”.

According to a Genetech press release, “Genetech, Inc. is a leading international biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceuticals for significant unmet medical needs”.

When I called Greg Solar, the Genetech researcher who had requested the fetal parts for comment, the number listed on the purchase order was no longer in service. A call to Genetech’s corporate communications department also did not yield a response. The phone numbers given on the press release had a recording that said “The PCS customer you have called is not available at this time”.

The University of California at San Francisco researcher, Dr. Deborah Froh, also ordered fetal tissue. Dr. Froh’s purchase order requested “Lung 14-24 (will specify with each request).” The 14-24 presumably means a lung from a 14-24 week old preborn baby. Dr. Froh used the lungs for “Ontogeny and regulation of surfactant components in human fetal lung. Premature infants lack surfactant for adequate ventilation”. A call to the number listed on Dr. Froh’s purchase order was routed to an answering message with the following message: “Hello, this is Debbie Froh. I am no longer with at the University of California.” The California Medical Board records for Dr. Froh indicate that her medical license is delinquent and “a citation and or fine had been levied.” The fine was levied because Dr. Froh failed to inform the medical board of her change of address. Records show that Dr. Froh’s last address was in Crozet, Virginia.

Dr. Heidi Horner, associate director for CNS Pharmacology at Athena Neurosciences in South San Francisco requested “Intact brains preferred but large pieces of brain may be usable....” Dr. Horner’s purchase order said that the tissue would be used to “test the effects of endogenous and exogenous neurotoxins on cultured ventral mesencephalic neurons. This will hopefully lead to a better understanding of neurodegenerative processes. The end goal is to discover treatments for Parkinson’s disease.”

Athena Neurosciences, Inc. is listed with the California secretary of state’s office as a stock company. Last year, Athena Neurosciences, Inc., along with Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. sued the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, was for patent infringement. Robert Hillman, an attorney with the Menlo Park law firm of Fish & Richardson, who represented the defendants, was unavailable for comment on the lawsuit. Dr. Horner could not be reached at the phone number she gave on her purchase order.

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The California department of health services also seems to be buying pre-born baby parts. A “confidential protocol” by Dr. John F. Krowka at the California Department of Health Services Berkeley facility showed him ordering “liver, thymus & skin 18-24 wks.” Dr. Krowka ordered the tissue to study “liver/thymus: molecular and biomechanical mechanisms of cell death of human lymphocytes, cell surface markers and stimuli that can trigger cell death and activation in vitro. Will also be transplanted into immunodeficient mice for in vivo study....”

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Previously:

https://www.sexualhealthinnovations.org/about/board

Deborah Nucatola
is Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Following her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Nucatola completed a Fellowship in Family Planning Clinical Care and Research at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Nucatola has been active in family planning research since 2002 and has authored 2 textbook chapters and numerous journal articles. In addition to her administrative position at PPFA, Dr. Nucatola continues to provide clinical care in both New York and Los Angeles and enjoys educating medical students, residents, fellows, physicians and advanced practice clinicians. She has stayed active in research as Associate Medical Director for Research at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, and with the Research Division of the California Family Health Council.

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Today:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315802/posts

But Nancy Pelosi is not interested, as The Hill reports. Instead, she wants the pro-life group investigated and says they are creating a “false controversy” where non supposedly exists:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday joined calls for a federal investigation into the California-based anti-abortion group that sparked the Planned Parenthood hidden camera controversy.

“Let’s have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn’t exist,” Pelosi said Thursday in her first public remarks about Planned Parenthood since the first undercover video surfaced last week.

A long-time abortion rights champion, Pelosi dismissed accusations that Planned Parenthood has raked in profits from its fetal tissue donation program.

“Planned Parenthood has said that they have done nothing illegal,” she said. “They do not ever charge, which would be illegal, for fetal tissue. They have only defrayed the cost of mailing that to someone, which is not breaking the law.”

She also criticized the selectively edited videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, pointing to the “disparities” between actual film and edited versions.

Pelosi dismissed the GOP’s attacks against Planned Parenthood, which she said “has been going on for a long time.”

She said government investigators should, instead, focus on the legality of the Center for Medical Progress’s political activity, backing an effort by several House Democrats who have called for a Department of Justice probe.

“They’ve been out to get Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember,” the California Democrat said. “This is about women’s health. Planned Parenthood has said they have done nothing anything illegal.”

Baby Body parts for sale!

The Players

Although other organizations are well known to be involved in the wholesaling of baby parts, this document focuses on just two companies, the Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF) and Opening Lines.

AGF was founded in 1994 by Jim and Brenda Bardsley in a doublewide trailer house on the Satilla River outside rural White Oak, Georgia. This AGF facility is also a catfish farm called Sweetwater Farms. The Bardsleys are the president and vice-president of the organization and Jim Bardsley’s brother, Brent, is its executive director. The group’s headquarters has been moved to Laurel, Maryland, but the White Oak address is still listed among AGF’s several locations.

AGF also has offices in Arizona and Colorado. The Phoenix facility appears to only provide adult tissue and is not known to be involved in the marketing of baby parts. However, the Aurora, Colorado, office is located inside a freestanding abortion clinic (Mayfair Women’s Clinic). AGF’s employee at this facility is a woman named Ying Bei Wang. AGF also claims to have operatives in abortion clinics on the east coast and in the midwest.

Pathologist Miles Jones, in West Frankfort, Illinois, founded Opening Lines in 1997. Jones’ business partner, Gayla Rose, handles its daily operations. Opening Lines is currently harvesting baby parts only from abortion clinics in the United States, but claims to be actively pursuing sources in Canada and Mexico.

Opening Lines Marketing Materials

As for ties between AGF, Opening Lines and the abortion industry, the National Abortion Federation listed AGF as a member in 1998, and in 1991 both Miles Jones and Gayla Rose were cited as donors in the National Abortion Federation’s annual report. The last known addresses we had for these organizations are:

Anatomic Gift Foundation
96 Satilla Drive
White Oak, GA 31568
(912) 576-5889
(912) 576-3727 fax

Anatomic Gift Foundation
13948 Baltimore Avenue
Laurel, MD 20707
(301) 953-2702
(301) 953-2701 fax
1-800-300-5433
web: anatomicgift.com

Anatomic Gift Foundation of Arizona
1313 N 2nd Street, Suite 2
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 528-3715
(602) 528-3717 fax

Anatomic Gift Foundation (Mayfair Women’s Clinic)
14446 E Evans Avenue
Aurora, CO 80014
(303) 696-9761 (Mayfair)
(303) 755-8601 AGF voice & fax

Opening Lines/Professional Arts Lab
A Division of Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology
PO Box 508
502 W St. Louis Street
West Frankfort, IL 62896
(618) 937-2439
(618) 937-1525 fax
1-800-490-9980

https://www.lifedynamics.com/Abortion_Information/Baby_Body_Parts/page2.cfm

“California lawyer Joan Samuelson had founded the Parkinson Action Network (PAN) in 1990 to lobby for an end to the moratorium. “

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PARALLEL DEBATE RAGES OVER USE OF FETAL TISSUE
Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA) - September 14, 1997
Author/Byline: Susan Swartz Staff Writer

Controversy over injecting fetal brain cells into the brains of Parkinson's disease sufferers made Joan Samuelson an activist and then a professional advocate.

``A crash course in Lobbying 101,’’ she calls the stormy effort in 1991-92, which ended a year later when President Clinton lifted the ban on government funding for fetal tissue research.

Yet it had ironically mixed results. Even as that effort brought publicity to the disease that affects 1 million Americans, the continuing controversy intrudes in most discussions about Parkinson's.

``Fetal tissue is just one promising treatment out of many,’’ is Samuelson's practiced response when someone makes the assumption that Parkinson's research is all about using aborted fetuses.

Nationally, fetal tissue research still is deeply troubling to many abortion opponents and has put some lawmakers in the moral quandary of deciding between support for Parkinson's research, which could save constituents’ lives, and their concerns about the use of fetal tissue in experimental, but promising treatment.

Even this summer, as Samuelson and her staff at the Parkinson Action Network in Washington, D.C., worked to move along the Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Research, Education and Assistance Act, the issue was raised once again.

Some supporters of the bill wanted it amended to exclude fetal transplants. When Congress returned from recess, Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., introduced an amendment that would prohibit research with fetal tissue, but only in regards to Parkinson's.

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The Senate voted down Coats’ amendment, 60-38, after hearing arguments from Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy that there was existing law on the subject as well as safeguards.

Kennedy warned that if there were a ban specifically for Parkinson's research, it would eventually affect all other diseases that might benefit from fetal tissue research.

Regardless of its controversy, a fetal tissue transplant is, for Samuelson, her greatest hope.

For decades, researchers experimented with transplanting the neural cells from aborted fetuses into the brains of Parkinson's patients to replace the damaged dopamine cells that paralyze the Parkinson sufferer. Researchers believe fetal tissue also can be effective with other diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, blindness and cancer.

In the 1980s, scientists started human clinical trials. But, largely because of pressure by abortion opponents, using federal money for fetal tissue research was barred under the Reagan and Bush administrations.

In 1990, the newly diagnosed Samuelson read of efforts by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, to get the ban removed. His Research Freedom Act, which included ethical guidelines on collecting fetal tissue, even had the support of people with well known anti-abortion views such as Sens. Strom Thurmond, whose daughter has diabetes, and Bob Dole, who said that to support the research was `the true pro-life position.’’

The ban was lifted by President Clinton. By then, Samuelson decided there was more advocacy needed on behalf of Parkinson's patients than fetal tissue research.

``There was a bigger issue an just this,’’ she says, and formed the Parkinson's Action Network to push for a cure of any kind.

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http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-105hhrg41644/html/CHRG-105hhrg41644.htm

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C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
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ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
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JAY DICKEY, Arkansas NITA M. LOWEY, New York
ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/04/13/daily78.html

Nancy Pelosi at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.

Pelosi: Stimulus just the start of Obama commitment to science
Apr 17, 2009,

The economic stimulus plan could fund 16,000 scientific research grants that otherwise would not be funded, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said following a tour this morning of the Mission Bay campus of the University of California San Francisco.
But even as UCSF stands to land as much as $200 million in NIH stimulus funding, she added it is essential to maintain that basic research funding commitment after the two-year stimulus runs its course.
Pelosi toured a stem cell lab, funded by California’s stem cell agency, at the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes and was shown around a lab in the Center for Advanced Technology at UCSF’s Genentech Hall. Accompanying Pelosi were UCSF chancellor Michael Bishop, Gladstone president Robert ahley, cardiovascular institute chief Deepak Srivastava, UCSF professor Joe DeRisi, stem cell agency Chairman Bob Klein and others.
“I wish that all my colleagues could have walked the labs with me,” Pelosi said. “What they would have seen is a vision of the future.”
Those facilities are among those expected to gain from the $787 billion stimulus package, approved by Congress in February. But an ongoing commitment is needed, Pelosi said, noting $3 million set aside in next year’s budget for one particular Gladstone Institutes program.

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