In California, a biotech company called Ganogen Inc. is bragging about their new research breakthrough in a procedure that harvests the organs of aborted children and transplants them in animals, where they can grow and then be made available to patients - See more at: http://thechristians.com/?q=content/scientists-harvest-organs-unborn-babies-animal-research#sthash.iot5XeBc.dpufRead more here.
John-Henry Westen writes in The Journal by IJReview
In 2006, a clinic in the Netherlands was found to be harvesting babies at 12 weeks’ gestation for beauty treatments for wealthy British women, while a clinic in Ukraine was doing the same for Russian women.Read more here.
Last year, officials in Oregon ended a program where aborted babies from Canada were used as a source of energy as abortionists shipped them to an incinerator in Oregon. These unborn children were qualified as “medical waste.”
Thu Anh Le writes at Decoded Science,
Whichever side of the aisle you are on, you should be aware that the use of fetal tissue for research and science is not a new practice. Scientists have used these tissues to develop vaccines such as those for polio, rubella, measles, and varicella. In addition, researchers have also used fetal tissues to make medicine for those who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and cystic fibrosis.Read more here.
Stanley Plotkin created the first vaccine with human cell strains. The rubella vaccine developed at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Photo credit: Renat Latipov
According to the American Society for Cell Biology, fetal cells are valuable for research because they can divide rapidly and grow and adapt to new environments better than adult cells. In addition, because these fetal cells are normal and healthy, compared other cells that came from cancers or other abnormal tissues, they are more relevant to a variety of diseases and medical conditions.
New insights into birth defects and other developmental diseases have emerged from fetal tissue research. By comparing normal and abnormal development in fetal tissues, scientists can learn more about gene activation and other processes that lead to an array of problems, including Down’s Syndrome, SIDS, and miscarriages.
Fetal tissue transplantation can also be effective for patients with Parkinson’s, diabetes, and heart disease. Since fetal cells elicit less of an immune response than adult cells, it can significantly lower the risk of tissue rejection. In fact, a man with Parkinson’s disease has just recently received injections of fetal brain cells into his own brain. He is the first person in almost 20 years to undergo this process and may recover full control of his movements in about five years.
The use of fetal organs for research is legal, when appropriate consent is given, and when doctors follow federal procedures – and science has been using these tissues for decades. On the other hand, reactions to the video are justifiable, given our nature to avoid death and harm.
In the long term, our society must choose whether the positive aspects of fetal tissue research are worth the cost of disgust – and not just when it’s a hot topic in the news.
Another article here states,
Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Florida's Children of God for Life, in exposing another abortion horror, has convinced Campbell's Soups to immediately end their taste testing research using aborted baby cells. Coca Cola, though never contacting Vinnedge, also ended their relationship with Senomyx, the biotech company conducting the flavor-enhancing research using an aborted baby's kidney cells to produce "human taste receptors". When new drink ingredients are put in contact with these cells, researchers note whether or not the cells produce certain protein reactions. (The same research can be done ethically using adult stem cells and in other ways.)
Joan Frawley Desmond wrote in Human life Review,
Neurosurgeons in Mexico are ready to attempt a transplant of fetal neural tissue into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s Disease. The viability of the transplant procedure will not be known for several months. Nevertheless medical researchers throughout the world, especially in the U.S. and Sweden, are optimistic that the special properties of fetal tissue will not only help patients with Parkinson’s, but also people with a host of other incurable diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s chorea, leukemia, and hemophilia. Radiation sickness and spinal cord injuries may also “benefit” from the implants.Read more here.
Fetal neural, pancreas and liver-cell implants could effect otherwise impossible recoveries for adults and children suffering from crippling illnesses and injuries. However, the moral, ethical, and legal questions posed by the “harvesting” of fetal tissue leave even aggressive American researchers uneasy about the long-term implications of this new medical development.
...The viability of the transplant procedure will not be known for several months. Nevertheless medical researchers throughout the world, especially in the U.S. and Sweden, are optimistic that the special properties of fetal tissue will not only help patients with Parkinson’s, but also people with a host of other incurable diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s chorea, leukemia, and hemophilia. Radiation sickness and spinal cord injuries may also “benefit” from the implants.
Fetal neural, pancreas and liver-cell implants could effect otherwise impossible recoveries for adults and children suffering from crippling illnesses and injuries. However, the moral, ethical, and legal questions posed by the “harvesting” of fetal tissue leave even aggressive American researchers uneasy about the long-term implications of this new medical development.
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