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Commentary by Dr. Paul A. Byrne, M.D.http://www.thelifeguardian.orgWe are bombarded with propaganda that encourages organ donation. For an organ to be suitable for transplantation it must be taken from a living person. Recent reports in the literature include: Dr. KG Karakatsanis of Greece evaluated current clinical criteria and confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of "brain death" to determine if they satisfied the requirements for the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain including the brain stem. He reviewed medical, philosophical and legal literature on the subject of "brain death." He presented four arguments:  Many clinically 'brain-dead' patients maintain...

The first body parts turned up Tuesday morning in a trash bag a state highway crew found while spreading salt on Interstate 380 as an ice storm loomed in the Poconos. In the hours that followed, state troopers found a woman's neatly severed head along the same road -- and bags of body parts at six other sites along I-380 and Interstate 80. They were scattered over 15 miles in Monroe and Lackawanna counties. ''There's quite a bit missing,'' said state police Lt. Robert Bartal of the Hazleton barracks. ''We believe it's all the remains of one person,'' a light-skinned...

Three Philadelphia-Area Funeral Directors Nabbed in Scheme Selling Body Parts Thursday, October 04, 2007 PHILADELPHIA — Three funeral directors sold hundreds of bodies to a former oral surgeon who allegedly collected the bones, tissue and skin from the corpses to be used in transplants, a grand jury charged Thursday after a 16-month investigation. The 244 bodies fetched about $1,000 each, the grand jury found, with the body parts being transplanted in unsuspecting medical patients worldwide. Michael Mastromarino, who operated the now-defunct Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., ran the scheme with help from a team of "cutters" who stole...

California Company: We'll Turn Your Child's Sibling Embryos Into Extra Body Parts No evidence to support claims that stem cells from these embryos can offer any treatment By Hilary White A California-based biotechnology company, StemLifeLine, is making a special offer to parents of children conceived through in vitro fertilisation techniques: "We'll turn your spare embryos into embryonic stem cell lines tailored to your child's potential future medical needs." StemCellLifeLine's website calls it "a novel service for individuals who have undergone in vitro fertilization, fulfilled their childbearing needs and now have to decide what to do with their remaining stored embryos....

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Two packages containing human body parts including a liver and a partial head that were intended for a Traverse City lab instead were delivered to a home. The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's Kent County home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table. ``My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,''' Ludivine Larmande told The Grand Rapids Press. ``He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw...

After years of denial, China has acknowledged that most of the human organs used in transplants here are taken from executed prisoners and that many of the recipients are foreigners who pay hefty sums to avoid a long wait. Speaking at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou, Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu called for a strict code of conduct and better record-keeping to stem China's thriving illegal organ trade, state media reported. "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," Huang said Tuesday, according to a...

A leading medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a North Carolina body parts broker believed to have a tainted history. The broker used an unsterile embalming room to carve up dozens of corpses to procure tissue, a Raleigh funeral home director said Tuesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration shut down the body broker on Friday, but refuses to say how many people may have received potentially risky tissue. It is the second scandal in less than a year in the booming tissue transplant industry. Cadaver...

SOUTH PLAINFIELD — At first, Andrea Leipow thought the severed human hand nicknamed Freddy, found in a mason jar of formaldehyde on a basement table, was just a bizarre joke. But when a resident at the home on the quiet suburban street read a satanic text in the language Enochian, the 25-year-old Leipow, who moved into the home in February, started to get "creeped out," she said. Things grew much darker at the house, which was shared by a group of people in their 20s, Leipow told the Home News Tribune yesterday. The two exotic dancers living there, Linda E....

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. - A severed hand was found at the home of an exotic dancer who decorated her home with skulls, and she was charged with improper disposition of human remains, authorities said. Friends said the hand had been given to the woman by a medical student. Police responding to a report of a suicidal person at the home of 31-year-old Linda Kay discovered the large, roughly severed hand in a jar of formaldehyde on a bedroom dresser, according to the police report. The subject of the suicidal person report was not located, authorities said. Six skulls were found...

As an exotic dancer at Hott 22 in Union, Linda Kay's persona was that of a dark and ghoulish Goth girl. In real life, police say, her interest in the macabre was more than just an act. Officers responding to a report of a suicidal individual at Kay's South Plainfield home discovered a severed hand in a glass mason jar of formaldehyde and six skulls -- all human, according to the Middlesex County medical examiner. Kay, 31, was arrested and charged with improper disposition of human remains. She has so far refused to tell police where or how she obtained...

Police and school officials in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., are investigating a list ranking 25 high school females based on explicit descriptions and categories. The document was uncovered as it circulated through the high school and into the community, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Titled the "Top 25 in 2006," it ranks students at the school based on various body parts and in sexual terms, so bad that one father of a student on the list called it "the equivalent of written rape on our daughter."

OTTAWA, April 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Concerned Canadian pharmacists have published a list of vaccines in use in the country that are currently sourced from aborted fetal tissues. It turns out that all vaccines with the exception of the flu vaccine utilize aborted fetal tissues.Alternatives do exist upon special request from a physician for the hepatitis B and rabies vaccines; visit http://www.cogforlife.org/canadianvaccines.htm to see a complete list of vaccines. The Children of God for Life (COG) web site also includes a list of medications that are derived from aborted fetal tissue, including the rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel ®. A Vatican...

Falun Gong Accuses China of Running Death Camp Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 11:17 am Press Release Express deepest grievance and concern regarding the suffering of Falun Gong practitioners held in Sujiatun death camp, China. On 6th April New Zealand Falun Gong practitioners will gather at Parliament to express our deepest grievance and concern regarding the suffering of Falun Gong practitioners held in Sujiatun death camp, China. On March 8, 2006, a Chinese journalist on the run from the Chinese communist regime disclosed to Falun Gong practitioners in the United States an appalling news: a secret death camp in Sujiatun,...

1. Report: China Selling Prisoners' Body Parts Chinese doctors are "harvesting" kidneys, corneas and other organs from live concentration camp inmates and selling them for up to $100,000 apiece. That's the shocking report from a former employee at Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, where the organ removal has allegedly been taking place. In an interview with The Epoch Times, the ex-employee said the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang City is part of the hospital and since 2001 has secretly detained approximately 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners - none of whom has left the camp alive. "The...

Two US doctors have suggested the sale of organs such as kidneys should be legalised to meet the rising demand. They said bids to increase the donor pool were failing, and a black market in organ sales was booming. Writing in Kidney International the pair said, while it remained a taboo, legalisation should be considered. But experts in the UK - where selling organs is illegal - said such a move was unnecessary and would exploit the poorest sections of society. It is a tragedy that the critical shortage of organs donated for transplant means this question arises at all...

    December 30, 2005Dear Pro-Life Friends:Below is a link to two articles which detail how the FDA is investigating one New Jersey Biomedical company for the illegal use of human body parts, tissue and skin. http://njrtl.org/content/newsletter_details.asp?ArticleID=1071http://njrtl.org/content/newsletter_details.asp?ArticleID=1067These article demonstrates that  “harvesting” and trafficking of human body parts does indeed exist in New Jersey.    Firms like this will no doubt flourish under NJ’s clone and kill law which authorizes “reasonable value” for the  “removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue, ‘ cultivated’ through the cloning technique, ‘somatic cell nuclear transplantation.’”     Another item...

1010 WINS has learned that an investigation is underway into what may be the illegal harvesting of human bones from deceased victims whose families never gave consent for the bones to be removed. There are at least 30 cases involved and that number could grow. Sources say long bones from arms and legs were surreptitiously removed and replaced with pipes or broomsticks. The matter came to light after the sale of the Daniel George & Sons Funeral Home in Brooklyn. New owners Deborah Johnson and Robert Nelms found financial fraud and believed bodies were tampered with. "We're aware of the...

A DUTCH doctor at the centre of a British hospital scandal has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for removing organs from the bodies of 850 dead children without their parents' consent. The General Medical Council (GMC) today ordered Professor Dick van Velzen be struck off the UK medical register after his actions at the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, northern England. A 2001 government report into the scandal, which shocked Britain with its graphic nature, said the doctor had ordered the stripping of hearts, brain parts, eyes and a number of heads. The inquiry was launched after the...

KIEV, May 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A UK Observer exclusive has revealed that the trafficking of unborn baby body tissues for use as “beauty” treatments in Russia is a booming trade. The unborn children are purchased from Ukrainian women – some of whom are also ‘duped’ by racketeering doctors who convince the women that the unborn baby is defective and needs to be aborted – thereafter selling the aborted child. The babies are cryogenically frozen and advertised as providing “youth injections” claimed to reverse aging and cure many diseases. An older baby is worth even more, as beauty spa workers...

MEDICAL students have been filmed removing human body parts from an autopsy room at Debrecen University's Institute for Anatomy. The film crew, from the Norwegian channel TV2, were making a documentary about life studying abroad. There are an estimated 680 Norwegians studying in Hungary, primarily at medical and veterinary schools. According to Népszabadág, the film crew collected footage of students smuggling body parts out of the university's mortuary for later study. According to the Hungarian TV2 - the Norwegian broadcaster's sister station - students in Debrecen have been able to enter the mortuary after closing time on payment of Ft2,000....

Let's call it "stealth human-cloning legalization." It's easy to do: First, write a proposed law that you claim outlaws human cloning. But then, engage in a little slight of hand here, some redefining of a few crucial terms there, and voila! — your supposed cloning ban actually authorizes human cloning, implantation, and gestation through the ninth month. That is what New Jersey legislators did when they passed and then Governor James McGreevey signed S-1909 last year, a law that was sold to the public as outlawing human cloning but which actually permits the creation of cloned human life, and its...

Fair use for education/discussion purposes: Yahoo! News News Home - Help AFP CIA renditions of terror suspects are 'out of control:' report Sun Feb 6, 5:57 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)'s 'rendition' of suspected terrorists has spiralled 'out of control' according to a former FBI (news - web sites) agent, cited in a report which examined how CIA (news - web sites) detainees are spirited to states suspected of using torture. Michael Scheuer a former CIA counterterrorism agent told The New Yorker magazine "all we've done is create a nightmare," with regard...

November 11, 2004   Dear Pro-Life Friends:   Today's Star Ledger article (link below) reports that state debt grew $12 billion during McGreevey's three years in office.  This article appeared one day after two researchers appeared at a Press Conference in Trenton lobbying for an additional  $1 billion bond issue for the NJ Stem Cell Institute.   Please read my press release which can be found below the link to the Star Ledger article.   Contact your two state Assembly members and State Senator and urge them to oppose this bond scheme as well as any proposal to continue taxpayer funding in the budget for the NJ...

Contact Info. for those out of state is at the bottom of this post, you can contact the: stem cell institute, gov. mcgreevey, and the NJ State Democrap and Republican Chairs. We have just learned that Governor Jim McGreevey may be seeking employment at the NJ Stem Cell Institute when he leaves office. Please read the Press Release below.  Please contact your two NJ state Assembly Members and your State Senator to express your outrage at this prospect.  Seek assurances that your lawmakers will do everything in their power to block this effort. To find out who your legislators are, you can...

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It Stands to Reason. Some have argued whenever anyone cries "Nazi" this is a good reason to reject their whole point of view because nothing could really compare. Nothing in our country could be properly characterized by that kind of comparison. Well, I don't know. You be the judge. I have a piece here that I would like to read to you. It's not ordinary that I read a piece in its entirety, but in this particular case I think it is critical. It's not only a critical issue, but it is said so well and so effectively that ...

A full-colour, glossy brochure invites abortionists to "find out how you can turn your patient's decision into something wonderful." It's printed by Opening Lines, A Division of Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., a wholesale trafficker in aborted baby parts from American clinics. Out of an office in West Frankfort, IL, the company's director, Dr. Miles Jones, profits from an evidently tremendously lucrative trade - his current "Fee for Services Schedule" offers eyes and ears for $75 to $999 for a brain. Opening Lines was founded in 1989 to "maximize the utilization of fresh fetal tissue we process." It offer ...

Isn’t it interesting. Here we sit in our comfortable America, all in a huff about the cruel Serbs, about downtrodden Afghan women, about the horrors in East Timor, about the tyrant Saddam, and about a dozen other issues far from our shores. And we contemplate whether we should bomb them, or at least starve them with economic sanctions, into conforming to our enlightened ways. Every day we are reminded of human cruelty in foreign lands. We see specials on TV about the Nazi atrocities and the death camps. We shudder and vow that it will never happen here – while ...

THE gruesome details of China's trade in human organs harvested from Death Row were revealed in detail for the first time in Washington last week by a young doctor from the People's Republic newly fled to the West. As horror stories, they compare with the experiments carried out in Nazi concentration camps. Prisoners are killed to order so that doctors can take their body parts, including - in at least one case - while a victim's heart was still beating. Wang Guoqi, 38, speaking to congressmen, confirmed that condemned men, and sometimes women, are executed to order so that their ...

It’s truly a disgrace that the United States has been ejected from the UN Human Rights Commission, depriving this nation of a significant international bully pulpit with which to offer resolutions condemning egregious human rights violators such as China, Cuba and the Sudan. Despite losing a position at this particular forum, the United States must continue to vociferously speak out on behalf of those victimized by corrupt regimes, shining the light of day on atrocities that should not be tolerated by the global community. As the world’s only superpower, this is one of our salient obligations to mankind. Our humanity ...

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Washington, DC (CNSNews.com) - Members of a House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment on Thursday called on the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into the illegal trafficking of aborted baby body parts and tissue for profit.Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) during the hearing cited a broadcast on Wednesday night ABC's 20-20 program that showed allegations saying that Opening Lines, Inc., a company that provides aborted baby tissue to researchers, was illegally profiting from the sale by charging researchers a fee that includes more than the company's cost of providing the tissue.Documentation supporting these claims includes photocopies of fee schedules ...

Details of the shocking scandal of body parts harvested from executed prisoners being sold to transplant patients was revealed in the May 15 issue of the Village Voice, which tracked down a story long rumored and now shown to be true: Executed Chinese prisoners are the source of many of the body parts transplant patients have been given while visiting mainland China. And they don’t have to be violent criminals. What would be minor offenses in most countries can get you killed in the Chinese worker’s paradise, especially, it seems, if you have healthy organs. Even more horrifying is evidence ...

MORE than half of Britain's major hospitals have removed organs from patients without clearly informing relatives, the Government will admit this week. Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, will make the disclosure on Tuesday, when he publishes the results of an inquiry into the removal of organs from dead babies at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. He has already told friends that the findings are "grotesque" and the most shocking he has ever read. The full extent of body-part removal at other hospitals will be revealed by Prof Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, in a separate report, compiled after an investigation ...

Baby Body Parts for Sale Several months ago I commented that our country has sunk to its lowest moral depth yet by harvesting and selling body parts from aborted babies. That’s right. An entire industry has grown out of killing unborn children. Not only are the baby butchers collecting millions of dollars from this hideous practice, so are baby parts wholesalers. According to Wendy Griffith at CBN news, "Wholesalers, like the Anatomic Gift Foundation, headquartered in Laurel, Maryland, place workers or technicians inside abortion clinics to ‘harvest’ fetal tissue and organs for researchers such as universities and pharmaceutical companies. The ...

INVESTIGATION: Act banned by national tissue bank group. Florida company plans to mix bone from up to 100 cadavers in products it makes from donated human body parts, a practice banned by most of the nation's tissue banks because of fears it can spread disease. The new methods employed by Regeneration Technologies Inc. disregard safety standards adopted 12 years ago by the American Association of Tissue Banks in the wake of an outbreak of deaths in Japan. The methods fall outside the regulatory guidelines of the federal Food and Drug Administration. The company says it has the technology to combine ...

The distribution of fetal body parts to scientists is a million-dollar industry. Researchers claim it's a necessary evil, but others fear that it may encourage some grim abuses. cientists depend on human body parts for research they believe may yield breakthroughs in a number of diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, that affect millions of people. But the public largely is unaware of the way the laundry list of body parts for scientific research is filled. Those who oppose using human flesh for research wonder if knowing the gruesome details would make a difference to those who support the ...

The Big Business of Body Parts Medical advances and a growing willingness to donate organs have bolstered the largely unregulated trade of human parts. Donors hoping to save a life might be surprised by how their bodies are used. Technicians process human tissue inside specially sealed laboratories at LifeNet in Virginia Beach. Photo by Roger Richards / The Virginian-Pilot. By BILL SIZEMORE, The Virginian-Pilot © May 1, 2001 VIRGINIA BEACH -- More than 2 million Virginians -- nearly 40 percent of the state's drivers -- have opted to give the ``gift of life'' by designating themselves as organ donors ...

British defense officials accused of stealing Gulf War vets' organs By ANTONY BARNETTLondon Observer Service LONDON -- The British Ministry of Defense has been accused of being behind a program to remove body parts from Gulf War veterans illegally and send them for secret research experiments. Lawyer Mark McGhee has launched legal action for the mother of one soldier, 24-year-old Andrew Mullineux, amid allegations that his brain was removed after he died mysteriously in 1993. It is alleged that the brain and other organs were sent to Porton Down, a military research center in Wiltshire, England. Margaret Mullineux only found ...

Ann Noonan, policy director for the Laogai Foundation One of the most gruesome human-rights abuses in today's world is China's trafficking of its own executed prisoners' body parts to American residents. This atrocity was documented by testimony given June 27th during a U.S. congressional hearing. Congressman Henry Hyde, the chairman on International Relations, in a press release stated: By some estimates 90 percent of transplants performed in China use human organs taken from executed prisoners. Amnesty International reports that some prisoners are executed for such crimes as "counter-revolutionary offenses" a code word for pro-democracy activism. Holiday executions and "Strike ...

Three years ago, Dr. Thomas Diflo's moral nightmare walked into his examination room: a patient freshly implanted with a kidney bought from China's death row, where prisoners are killed—sometimes for minor offenses—and their organs harvested. Since then, Dr. Diflo, director of the renal transplant program at the New York University Medical Center, has seen half a dozen such people, typically young Chinese American women. The surgeon says his patients weren't distressed about snatching organs from the condemned, but he was overwhelmed by the implications. Unable to shoulder the burden alone, on January 11, Diflo took his "horror at a real ...

DEC 6 1999 Parents sign away dead kids' organs without knowing it Britain's top medical officer admits changes might be necessary as many parents do not grasp the implications fully when signing consent forms LONDON -- Laws on the removal of organs from dead children may be tightened, Britain's top medical officer said, as key hospitals admitted the practice may have taken place without parents being aware of it. The practice has come under greater scrutiny after it emerged that a children's hospital in Liverpool removed the organs from 850 dead infants without their parents' consent. Seven of Britain's ...

Investigation reveals extent of storage of children's organs By Emma Ross, Associated Press, 1/30/2001 11:55 LONDON (AP) Doctors at a prominent hospital removed hearts, brains, eyes and heads from thousands of dead children without the consent of their parents, a government report published Tuesday has found. Health Secretary Alan Milburn told lawmakers that Dutch pathologist Dick Van Velzen, who was responsible for post mortem examinations at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, between 1988 and 1995, had ''systematically ordered the unethical and illegal stripping of every organ from every child who had a post mortem.'' Milburn said the report ...

About PA Site Guide StoryFinder E-mail us PARENTS CALL FOR ORGAN REMOVAL INQUIRY Solicitors representing parents who had hearts removed from their dead children want a public inquiry after it emerged other organs were removed without their consent. The call comes amid claims from parents that a brain and lungs, as well as hearts, were taken from youngsters at Birmingham Children's Hospital. The hospital has already admitted removing 1,500 hearts from children over a 35-year period, but refused to confirm what other organs had been taken.

Organs From Executed Prisoners Used For Transplants In China HONG KONG, Jan 9, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Organs from prisoners executed in southern China are being sold to patients from Hong Kong for liver transplants, according to a press report in Hong Kong Sunday. Doctors at Sun Yat Sen University Hospital in the southern city of Guangzhou told the South China Sunday Morning Post that most organs came from prisoners. "Prisoners are good because they are young," said one. "We have a good network, most of the livers will be sent to us." According to at least one ...

Desperately ill Malays pay a 'special rate' of $10,000 per kidney. The 'donor' pays with his life For more than a week Yong Puay Sim had lain alongside 10 other kidney patients in a grim hospital ward in China to which she had travelled from her home in Malacca, Malaysia. She could understand little of the language being spoken by the doctors and the conditions were far from clean. Outside her window the air was thick with smog, the roads packed with people. But a Chinese festival was approaching, and a friend who had travelled with her to China ...

INTERNATIONAL China selling organs of executed prisoners By IAN WILLIAMS London Observer Service December 13, 2000 MALACCA, Malaysia - For more than a week Yong Puay Sim lay alongside 10 other kidney patients in a grim hospital ward in China to which she had traveled from her home in Malacca. She could understand little of the language being spoken by the doctors, and the conditions in her ward were far from clean. Outside her window the air was thick with smog, the roads packed with people. But a friend who had traveled with her to China brought the news ...

Human organs -- another Chinese export                                                   MONDAY JULY 32000                 Human organs -- another Chinese export Executed prisoners provide vast harvest of 'fresh' body parts for sale Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C., newsweekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every Monday. Readers can subscribe to Human Events through WND's on-line store. By Nancy Morgan © 2000 Human Events "They told me ...

As American troops liberated those Nazi concentration camps it became obvious the kind of atrocities that had taken place. General George Patton was so nauseated by what his troops had discovered that he required thousands of German citizens to march through those death traps to see for themselves what their government had done. People cried and vomited as they were confronted with the reality of Hitler’s madness. Could it be that the American government is carrying out a similar madness? According to a report in the current edition of Insight magazine our government has, in the name of research, authorized ...

Woe to the Bloody City! Are you better than No-amon?… Her little ones were dashed to pieces at the corner of every street. — Nahum 3:8&10 "FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN TURN YOUR PATIENT'S DECISION INTO SOMETHING WONDERFUL" reads the glossy brochure sent out to abortion mills by Opening Lines, a fetal tissue "wholesaler." To medical research labs and college science departments Opening Lines offers "FRESH FETAL TISSUE HARVESTED AND SHIPPED TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS WHERE AND WHEN YOU NEED IT." Dr. Dodge of Thomas Jefferson University orders "Whole intact legs, including ENTIRE HIP JOINT, 22-24 weeks gest[ation]" from the ...