A
grisly trade in body parts is going
on quietly. So now the big money is
not only in abortion, but in the selling
of body parts of aborted babies. Sick!
Criminal! Diabolical!
The
dark side of biotech: expert details grisly
fate of fetal body parts
Kathleen
Gilbert Thu Dec 09 11:12 EST Bioethics
WASHINGTON,
D.C., December 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Every day in America, countless packages
are carefully transferred for use by
government, university, pharmaceutical
and other biotechnology laboratories.
Some of these end up advancing development
of products such as cosmetics and food
additives; others are used directly
as a form of therapy.
The
material in those packages are human
body parts - eyes, ears, limbs, brain,
skin - now an indispensable commodity
for many U.S. researchers and scientists,
and a lucrative export of America’s
abortion clinics.
To
see an example of an order form for
fetal body parts, click here.
Dr.
Theresa Deisher, a molecular and cellular
physiologist and an internationally-recognized
expert in regenerative medicine, explored
the routine “commoditizing”
of unborn human beings in modern biotechnology
in a speech in Washington, DC on Friday.
Deisher is Managing Member and Research
and Development Director at AVM Biotechnology,
and has several years’ experience
as a commercial scientist at top pharmaceutical
companies. Her work has led to dozens
of patented medical breakthroughs.
Historically,
when man wants to exploit other men,
“what we first have to do is alter
our way of thinking about them, and
then of course we actually have to dehumanize
them, and we usually do that by denying
them a soul: so therefore they’re
not actually human like the rest of
us,” Deisher told an audience
at the “50 Years of the Pill”
conference hosted by Human Life International
of America.
This,
she explained, is precisely the scenario
with the smallest
human lives in medical research today
- and not just embryos, but unborn children
of all trimesters - whose body parts
grow more valuable as they mature.
She
noted that an article in the Puget Sound
Business Journal discovered that the
University of Washington filled out
more than 4,400 requests for fresh fetal
body parts from fetal tissue for the
purpose of biomedical research in 2009,
the first time hard numbers of such
transactions were uncovered.
“It
has to be approved by an institutional
review board, so they think they’re
applying ethics to this because they
reviewed the use of this,” said
Deisher. “What do you think that
relationship might have to do with doctors
encouraging abortions?” She estimates
that as many as
1.87 million such transactions - requesting
individual body parts such as eyes and
liver - could happen each year in America.
The
scientist also noted that plenty
of scientific literature, available
on the Internet, discusses the optimal
age for a child’s death in order
to obtain useful body parts:
one such professional noted that the
best heart tissue is obtained from a
child of 22 weeks’ gestation.
In
addition to research, Deisher said the
bodies of unborn children are being
used “as not only biomedical research
tools, but as actual medical therapies.”
“Fetuses 12, 14, 16, 18 weeks
gestation are ground up and their cells
are implanted in people who have had
strokes or Parkinson’s disease,”
she said.
Another
ethical battlefield involves the use
of cell lines derived from aborted children.
Contrary to popular belief, today’s
fetal stem cell lines derive from not
one, but several abortions - many of
them in the second trimester - and will
have to be replaced with fresh victims
as they are only useful for about 30
to 35 years, said the scientist.
Fetal
cell line vaccines such as measles-mumps-rubella,
chicken pox, and hepatitis A are not
only morally problematic, said Deisher,
but their use has a dramatic correlation
with an epidemic on the rise: autism.
When
examining the points at which autism
diagnosis mysteriously spiked in the
U.S., said Deisher, “the only
thing that is associated with these
change points is the introduction of
a fetal cell vaccine.”
She said the correlation even holds
true for the U.S., Canada, Great Britain,
Wales, Denmark, Japan, and southeastern
Asian countries: “in every country
we have looked at, they have different
change points, every one is associated
with an aborted fetal event.”
No other variable, she said, has correlated
so closely to the pattern of autism
diagnosis.
Deisher
blamed such commercialization, in part,
on the growing tendency to see children
as “a choice rather than a blessing,”
due to technology controlling fertility
such as the hormonal birth control pill.
“From
that point, it was pretty easy for us
to begin looking at children as a material
thing, a new car or a mansion, a commodity,”
she said.
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain." (Phil 1:21)