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Obama Admin OKs Using Aborted Babies’ Brains in Lab Tests
lifenews.com ^ | Mar 16, 2012 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 07/30/2015 6:29:07 PM PDT by Morgana

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.”


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No wonder Obozo sees nothing wrong with what PP is doing. How did I miss this article????
1 posted on 07/30/2015 6:29:07 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Evil.


2 posted on 07/30/2015 6:29:54 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Morgana

bump


3 posted on 07/30/2015 6:32:39 PM PDT by proust (Hillary has dropped out of more races than Trump.)
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To: Morgana

President Ghoul.


4 posted on 07/30/2015 6:39:51 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Morgana
StemCells Inc. will inject fetal brain stem cells into the eyes of up to 16 patients to study the cells’ effect on vision.

Frankly, I hope they all go blind.

5 posted on 07/30/2015 6:43:32 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God)
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To: Morgana

Think of all the people that voted for him!

Whites, Blacks, Latinos, democrats, independents, maybe some republicans, hollywood stars, oh and union members, can’t forget those die hard democrats! Teacher’s union, state & federal unions, Teamsters et al voted for this piece of work. WOW!


6 posted on 07/30/2015 6:47:04 PM PDT by Lopeover (My vote is valuable, you must earn it.)
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To: Morgana
Don't use mice or monkey brains. Baby American brains are okay though. Godless bass turds!!!!

Restore the sanity. Vote for a conservative AMERICAN in 2016!!!

FUBO!

7 posted on 07/30/2015 6:47:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America Matters!)
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To: Lopeover
Think of all the people that voted for him!

Whites, Blacks, Latinos, democrats, independents, maybe some republicans, hollywood stars, oh and union members, can’t forget those die hard democrats! Teacher’s union, state & federal unions

You left out....

Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, s$$t-kickers and Methodists.

8 posted on 07/30/2015 6:51:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

Why would the outspoken opponent of “Born Alive” legislation have any qualms?


9 posted on 07/30/2015 6:56:41 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: P-Marlowe

I bet they weren’t told what exactly was being injected. At most they were likely given a nice sanitized name for the “product.”


10 posted on 07/30/2015 7:26:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Morgana

Hhmmmm...Tahoma Clinic in Tukwila Washington has been curing dry macular degeneration successfully for years...without drugs or human body parts.


11 posted on 07/30/2015 7:31:02 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Morgana

How Mengele of him.


12 posted on 07/30/2015 7:31:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana
To celebrate Planned Parenthood's contribution to the country, Obama hosted a lavish State Dinner in the White house.

Abortion industry moguls, top abortionists and Code Pink donors were there.

Obama was given the Margaret Sanger Award for championing the cause of killing as many babies as possible with out anyone noticing.

For dessert they had Ben and Jerry's horror themed ice cream.

All the best parts. Velvety red ice cream with chocolate body parts mixed in.

13 posted on 07/30/2015 7:35:12 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Morgana
"purified human neural stem cell product” or soylent green as they like to call it.

So it appears that the fed gov is even more massively involved than we knew.

The callousness with which these soulless ghouls treat their "work" is beyond horrifying.

14 posted on 07/30/2015 7:59:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Morgana
Fetal stem cells not only suck clinically / therapeutically (they keep thinking they're in a developing baby, so they migrate and form tumors (neoplasms).

Practitioners in the field prefer induced pluripotent stem cells from adults.

This is merely a fig leaf to continue abortion.

(Hint: Remember a number of years back when California had that bond issue to sponsor the research facility on fetal stem cells? *How* many Nobel Prizes have they won for their earth-shattering research, so far?)

15 posted on 07/30/2015 8:09:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: garjog

#Soylent Pink


16 posted on 07/30/2015 8:10:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: P-Marlowe

I bet the patients don’t know that dead babies are part of the treatment.


17 posted on 07/31/2015 4:36:05 AM PDT by AIL
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