• Also, as a fancy-pants Ivy League-educated attorney, Cruz should know that he can't prosecute Planned Parenthood for facilitating women's donations of fetal tissue to medical research because that is legal. (wonkette.com)
  • It includes some footage from the Planned Parenthood sting videos where technicians identify fetal body parts in petri dishes. (vox.com)
  • There is additional stock footage of full fetuses - again, not shot in Planned Parenthood clinics, and also not used in the original Human Capital videos. (vox.com)
  • There is audio from a former StemExpress employee (a company Planned Parenthood contracted with to procure fetal tissue) describing her own experience with another technician: "She gave me the scissors and told me to cut down the middle of the face. (vox.com)
  • It ends with the words "This is Planned Parenthood" over a late-stage fetus who, according to the identifying information next to it, was "killed by saline abortion" at "University of Wisconsin Hospital in the 1980s. (vox.com)
  • While there is discussion from the former StemExpress employer of procuring fetal brain tissue - a practice Planned Parenthood openly admits happens in its clinics - there is no discussion of keeping a fetus alive for that purpose. (vox.com)
  • There are videos of fetuses moving and kicking, but those were not shot at a Planned Parenthood clinic. (vox.com)
  • Moreover, the footage of the fetus in that video isn't from the Planned Parenthood videos. (vox.com)
  • McAleer, co-author of the forthcoming book Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer , noted that the report supports the findings of the undercover videos the Center for Medical Progress released last summer showing Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the prices of fetal body parts. (christianpost.com)
  • They did not rely on the CMP film footage but on actual documents including contracts, invoices, cost calculations, and internal medical standards and guidelines that Planned Parenthood and several biotech firms themselves provided. (christianpost.com)
  • But the current bill is gaining steam among legislators such as Stroebel because an anti-abortion group released videos of a California Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal tissue sales. (wuwm.com)
  • As head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Medical Services division, Nucatola has overseen medical practice at all Planned Parenthood clinics since 2009. (wnd.com)
  • Planned Parenthood issued a statement saying Nucatola was only talking about selling "tissue" and downplayed the video. (wnd.com)
  • There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or Planned Parenthood. (wnd.com)
  • Limbaugh said there was no lifesaving research by Planned Parenthood, because the abortionists would have trumpeted any medical breakthrough it had made. (wnd.com)
  • Planned Parenthood makes two key admissions in their statement today: 1) aborted fetal parts are harvested at their clinics, and 2) money is exchanged in connection with this. (wnd.com)
  • Underlying the furor over Planned Parenthood sending aborted fetal tissue to science for research is an ethical battle over the moral status of the fetus. (religionnews.com)
  • RNS) In a flood of outrage over Planned Parenthood videos - executives caught talking callously about supplying fetal tissue for medical research - some key points have washed out of attention, ethics experts say. (religionnews.com)
  • With the release of the undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), many people, both Pro-Life and so-called " pro-choice ," have questions about the business practices of America's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • The pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a new video today, explaining how Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as California Attorney General, colluded with Planned Parenthood to weaponize California's video recording law. (cal-catholic.com)
  • The six-minute video features CMP founder and president David Daleiden, who developed and orchestrated the organization's 30-month-long undercover study of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry's participation in the illegal sale of body parts from aborted fetuses, describing how at the behest of Planned Parenthood, Kamala Harris had California Department of Justice agents raid his home to try to stop him from publishing undercover reports. (cal-catholic.com)
  • Less than two weeks before the April 5, 2016 raid on Daleiden's home to seize the videos, Kamala Harris met in person with several Planned Parenthood executives, including the lead abortionist at Planned Parenthood Orange & San Bernardino Counties (PPOSBC), whose fetal tissue program was then under investigation by local law enforcement. (cal-catholic.com)
  • As you undoubtedly know, a group called the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has made a series of undercover videos of high-ranking Planned Parenthood officials. (powerlineblog.com)
  • In both, representatives of CMP are negotiating to buy fetal tissue in the form of intact organs from Planned Parenthood. (powerlineblog.com)
  • A hidden-camera video released last week purported to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses. (powerlineblog.com)
  • This video, like the first one, leaves no doubt whatsoever that Planned Parenthood is in the business of selling aborted babies' organs to private firms engaged in research. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Now that its trafficking in body parts has been exposed, Planned Parenthood claims this commerce is little short of heroic: the body parts are used in ground-breaking, life-saving medical research. (powerlineblog.com)
  • SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- A video released July 14 appears to show a top Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of parts of aborted babies for research, including discussing ways the abortion procedure can be altered to preserve specifically requested body parts. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • The nearly nine-minute edited video -- filmed undercover and produced by the Center for Medical Progress -- quickly went viral and Planned Parenthood denied making a profit on the sale of aborted baby parts. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • She also trains new Planned Parenthood abortion doctors and performs abortions herself at Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles on women who are up to 24 weeks pregnant, according to Center for Medical Progress. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • Planned Parenthood acknowledged it sometimes charges for aborted fetuses' body parts used for research. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • However, Erin Ferrero, Planned Parenthood's vice president of communications, said in a statement: "There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or Planned Parenthood. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • Holly O'Donnell, a licensed phlebotomist, said she "unsuspectingly took a job as a 'procurement technician'" at the fetal tissue company StemExpress, which was allegedly the primary buyer of fetal body parts from Planned Parenthood. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • A second video allegedly showing a senior Planned Parenthood official negotiating for fetal tissue and fetal parts for profit has been released. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • In the video, released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's for-profit Medical Directors' Council, is seen haggling over prices of fetal parts. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • An antiabortion group on Tuesday released an undercover video of an official at Planned Parenthood discussing in graphic detail how to abort a fetus to preserve its organs for medical research - as well as the costs associated with sharing that tissue with scientists. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • The anti-abortion group gained national attention in 2015 after releasing a video showing Planned Parenthood affiliates discussing the sale of aborted fetuses. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • The DaVinci companies' admission of guilt for selling baby parts from Planned Parenthood is a ringing vindication of (the Center for Medical Progress') citizen journalism methods and accuracy," said Daleiden. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • In light of the news that Planned Parenthood is now under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for the sale of fetal body parts, the next step is for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties to be held accountable under the law for their seven-year-long aiding, abetting, and profiting in DaVinci's criminal scheme to sell baby parts for profit," he added. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • Republican calls to defund Planned Parenthood over its alleged handling of fetal tissue for research are louder than ever. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Those videos purport to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses in strikingly casual terms. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Asked if the goal was to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue research or both, David Daleiden, the head of the group that took the videos, said in a statement: "The goal of our investigation is to reveal the truth about Planned Parenthood's trafficking and sale of aborted baby body parts for profit, which is illegal and unethical. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • But while the tie to fetal tissue is new, the fight to separate Planned Parenthood from its federal funding is, in fact, older than the 26-year-old Daleiden. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • But even those inclined to support Planned Parenthood say that the allegations around the sale of fetal tissue may represent a turning point. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • California tissue procurement company StemExpress, which had worked with Planned Parenthood clinics and is the focus of several videos, released a statement Tuesday calling the Center for Medical Progress "criminals" who continue "to lodge unsupported false accusations. (politico.com)
  • Thanks to women who choose to have abortions and then generously donate their aborted fetuses to medical research, scientists have been able to use fetal tissue to develop all kinds of treatments and cures for diseases. (wonkette.com)
  • Vaccines for hepatitis A, German measles, chickenpox and rabies, for example, were developed using cell lines grown from tissue from two elective abortions, one in England and one in Sweden, that were performed in the 1960s. (wonkette.com)
  • The recording shows Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how her organization sells the body parts of aborted unborn children and admitting she uses partial-birth abortions - a felony punishable by imprisonment - to harvest intact body parts. (wnd.com)
  • The journal said such tissue is "derived from elective abortions" and must be used in "a morally acceptable manner" that distinctly separates the decision to have an abortion from consent to donate the resulting tissue. (religionnews.com)
  • altering abortions in order to harvest valuable organs intact , joking about " war torn " dismembered babies, and even alluding to " intact fetal cadavers . (texasrighttolife.com)
  • In a new video just released by the Center for Medical Progress, a former clinical worker at StemExpress described her job of identifying pregnant women "who met criteria for fetal tissue orders and to harvest fetal body parts after their abortions. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • "'My Safe Research Act would ensure that scientists can continue important research,'" said Rep. McClain in the Fox report, "'so long as they're not using fetal tissue from abortions. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • Catholic leaders and others who oppose abortions have raised concerns that potential COVID-19 vaccines are being developed using cells derived from aborted fetuses. (newsweek.com)
  • B19 has also been associated with fetal death (both spontaneous abortions and stillbirths), acute arthralgias and arthritis, and chronic anemia in immunodeficient patients (5-14). (cdc.gov)
  • A well-funded group established for the purpose of damaging Planned Parenthood's mission and services has promoted a heavily edited, secretly recorded videotape that falsely portrays Planned Parenthood's participation in tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research," he said. (wnd.com)
  • I have been working to isolate segments from the 4th video in the Center For Medical Progress videos about Planned Parenthood's role in fetal tissue harvesting. (blogspot.com)
  • The videos show some of Planned Parenthood's top staff discussing compensation for the procurement of fetal body parts (Lamborghini, anyone? (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Harris attempted to punish CMP's undercover reporting on Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue harvesting and research programs. (cal-catholic.com)
  • Planned Parenthood's criminal conspiracy to make money off of aborted baby parts reaches to the very highest levels of their organization," said David Daleiden, who led the undercover investigation. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • As head of Planned Parenthood's Medical Services Department, Nucatola has overseen medical practice at of the federation's locations since 2009. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • The Center for Medical Progress plans to publish more videos and said it also will post a "Human Capital" web series detailing Planned Parenthood's alleged commercial exploitation of aborted fetal tissue. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • Over lunch at a Los Angeles restaurant, two antiabortion activists posing as employees from a biotech firm met with Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical research. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • Armed with cameras, the activists recorded Nucatola talking about Planned Parenthood's work donating fetal tissue to researchers and pressed her on whether the clinics were charging for the organs. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • Magdalena Segieda, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney share their plans to film a made-for-TV movie about abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the Women's Medical Society late-term abortion clinic in West Philadelphia, Pa. (christianpost.com)
  • RNS) The furor is, at root, an unwinnable war over "personhood," the legality of abortion and the ethics of finding cures for life in the death of a fetus. (religionnews.com)
  • But if you don't see this embryo or tissue - whether from an abortion or a miscarriage - as having a moral status, you don't see the issue of giving consent for its use in research. (religionnews.com)
  • No guidelines or codes can suffice for any use of fetuses killed in an elective abortion, said Ron Hamel , who recently retired as senior ethicist for the Catholic Health Association. (religionnews.com)
  • For example, Hamel said it is ethical at a Catholic health facility for parents to consent to donate remains of a miscarried fetus or an "indirect abortion" - when a fetus is unavoidably harmed during essential treatment to the mother for a life-threatening condition. (religionnews.com)
  • Live Science interviewed a legal expert who affirmed that the key legal issue is the woman's consent and the separation of her decision to commit the abortion and donate the fetal organs. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Gu acknowledges to Live Science that the issue of abortion makes this kind of "research" difficult, because many people object to abortion in the first place. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • What should a conscientious pro-life person do if his research center agreed to use biological material obtained as a result of the intentional abortion of babies in their embryonic or fetal stages of life? (ewtn.com)
  • Abortion critics have interpreted this to mean that abortion providers can't make a profit on the sale of fetal organs. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Kathy Calver adjusts signs she placed on her shoes as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol to condemn the use in medical research of tissue samples obtained from aborted fetus. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • Her 2010 report on the fetal tissue industry, titled "Commercial Markets Created by Abortion: Profiting from the Fetal Distribution Chain" was published in the National Catholic Bioethics Center newsletter "Ethics &Medics. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • While not disputing the church officials' contention that an abortion-derived cell line is used in the production, Johnson & Johnson issued a statement Tuesday stressing that there is no fetal tissue in its vaccine. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • David Prentice, vice president and research director at the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute, and associate scholar Dr. James Sherley wrote in a piece on the organization's website that regardless of their individual views, policymakers, healthcare officials, scientists, vaccine creators and funders should consider that the potential ethical dilemma may be a barrier for accessing the vaccine for some. (newsweek.com)
  • A Wyoming law will require abortion providers to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound and listen to the fetal heartbeat. (atlantablackstar.com)
  • No pharmaceutical company is eager to broadcast the role that abortion-derived fetal cell lines played in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and that reportedly includes Pfizer . (americanuckradio.com)
  • Videos shot by members of an anti-abortion group posing as fetal tissue middlemen "absolutely shock the conscience," said McConnell at a news conference . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • This paper gives an Islamic perspective on some of these advances, including abortion, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering, cloning and stem cell research. (who.int)
  • The Vaccine Chart of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI) lists dozens of vaccines and medical products that contain aborted fetal cell lines. (hli.org)
  • Do Vaccines Contain Aborted Fetal Cells? (truthsnitch.com)
  • Some people will argue emphatically and call you an idiot if you truly believe the "conspiracy theory" that vaccines contain aborted fetal cells. (truthsnitch.com)
  • The rule circumvented a 1995 congressional ban on using federal money for biomedical research on embryos outside the womb by allowing researchers to use stem cells extracted by a third party. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Already, news that Advanced Cell Technology-a Massachusetts-based, privately held biotech company-and Virginia Medical School's Jones Institute had created or planned to create human embryos for the sole purpose of extracting their stem cells has troubled those on both sides of the debate. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In a 2012 letter to Children of God for Life, PepsiCo stated that "Senomyx does not use HEK cells or any other tissues or cell lines derived from human embryos or babies for research performed on behalf of PepsiCo. (hli.org)
  • For example, certain research may require using embryonic/fetal tissue that must be fresh and not frozen or in any way not normal and tissues from miscarried embryos/fetuses do not meet these criteria. (ewtn.com)
  • The Instruction 'Donum Vitae' formulated the general principle which must be observed in these cases: 'The corpses of human embryos and fetuses, whether they have been deliberately aborted or not, must be respected just as the remains of other human beings. (ewtn.com)
  • Background: Rich in different kind of potent cells, embryos are used in modern regenerative medicine and research. (lu.se)
  • Therefore, there is a growing need to develop conceptual frameworks for interpreting the trans‐ formative cultural, biological and technical processes involving these aborted, donated and marginal embryos. (lu.se)
  • Methods: This article examines different emotional, cognitive and discursive strategies used by neurobiologists in a foetal cell transplantation trial in Parkinson's disease research, using cells harvested from aborted embryos. (lu.se)
  • The cells used are derived from adult tissue such as fat, or bone marrow, thereby circumventing the ethical concerns raised by the use of cells derived from embryos. (ibtimes.com)
  • David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, wanted to ensure the sting videos accusing the women's health organization of illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue had staying power beyond the "contemporary 24-hour news cycle. (politico.com)
  • Do some products contain parts of aborted babies? (hli.org)
  • Researchers use fetal tissue to understand cell biology and human development. (wonkette.com)
  • Researchers value the cells for their ability to replicate quickly and turn into any kind of human tissue. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The prolife lobby also received help from Do No Harm, a coalition of researchers, bioethicists, and doctors who spearheaded a nationwide petition urging Bush to oppose destructive human embryonic stem-cell research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The Human Capital series includes footage of fetuses from a separate source (The Center for Bioethical Reform ) and an interview with a former employee of StemExpress , a company that procures human tissue for researchers. (vox.com)
  • Researchers could still use cell lines and tissue obtained before this year in their quest to treat diseases. (wuwm.com)
  • Golden says if Wisconsin bans the use of fresh fetal tissue, researchers will flee the state taking with them millions of dollars in research grants. (wuwm.com)
  • Once the rats were implanted with human kidneys from aborted babies, researchers surgically removed the rats' own kidneys a month later. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Live Science reports that "in the new study, Gu and his colleagues obtained human fetal kidneys from StemExpress, a Placerville, California-based company that supplies researchers with tissue from deceased adults and fetuses. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • But, as Germain Grisez noted in his massive book on "Difficult Moral Questions," a serious problem of conscience can frequently face pro-life scientists and researchers regarding use of tissues taken from embryonic or fetal human persons who were intentionally aborted. (ewtn.com)
  • No. 35 points out a somewhat different situation - the precise one of concern to us - with its set of moral issues, stating: "A different situation is created when researchers use 'biological material' of illicit origin which has been produced apart from their research center or which has been obtained commercially. (ewtn.com)
  • In 1952, researchers Christopher Polge and Lionel Edward Aston Rowson, who worked at the Animal Research Center in Cambridge, England, detailed several experiments on protocols for freezing bull semen for use in the artificial insemination of cows. (asu.edu)
  • Results: The findings indicate that the labour performed by the researchers in the trial work involves transforming the foetal material practically, as well as culturally, from trash to treasure. (lu.se)
  • The transformation process contains different phases, and in the interview material we observed that the foetal material or cells were considered objects, subjects or rejected as abject by the researchers handling them, depending on what phase of process or practice they referred to or had experience of. (lu.se)
  • Focusing on how practical as well as emotional and cultural strategies and rationalizations of the researchers emerge in interview accounts, this study adds insights on the rationale of practically procuring, transforming and utilizing the foetal material to the already existing studies focused on the donations. (lu.se)
  • That's different from the Center for Medical Progress , the group behind the sting videos. (vox.com)
  • In the video released by the Center for Medical Progress , Nucatola is at a business lunch with a man and a woman posing as buyers from a human biologics company. (wnd.com)
  • The Center for Medical Progress video campaign is a dishonest attempt to make legal, voluntary and potentially lifesaving tissue donations appear nefarious and illegal. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The video was shot at a business lunch in the Los Angeles area July 25, 2014, with actors posing as buyers from a human biologics company, according to the nonprofit Center for Medical Progress. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • Prosecutors opened an investigation into the companies in September 2015 after a complaint was submitted by Irvine-based Center for Medical Progress. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • Under the rule, a third party could destroy the embryo by taking it apart and preserving the remaining living stem cells for research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • If you think that, never mind the stage of development from embryo to fetus, this is a human life, a person, and any intervention is an act of killing, it's an unforgivable crime because a fetus has full moral status including, at the very least, the right not to be killed. (religionnews.com)
  • Neither can an embryo or a section of tissue give informed consent to be used for research - a fundamental ethical requirement, said Beauchamp. (religionnews.com)
  • Conclusions: The marginal and ambiguous status of the embryo that emerges in the accounts turns the scientists handling foetal cells into liminal characters in modern medicine. (lu.se)
  • PER.C6, a retinal cell line that was isolated from an aborted fetus in 1985 was used by Janssen in development of COVID-19 Vaccine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Janssen Research & Development USA, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, is meanwhile using PER.c6, a retinal cell line from a fetus aborted in 1985. (newsweek.com)
  • Last week, Breitbart highlighted one of the other uses of fetal organs "donated" to scientific research: Organs of aborted babies are implanted into rats in order to experiment with growing organs for the possibility of transplant to children and even adults. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Perhaps, he says, the practice will seem "more palatable" if the organs of aborted babies grown in rodents and pigs can only be transplanted into infants and children. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • I believe that whether fetal organs have any unique advantages in such research is hotly debated, and I have no opinion on the merits of that debate. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Congressional hearings to investigate trafficking in fetal organs and tissue by private companies were held but nothing was done, Evans said. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • A Tennessee law will require doctors to determine the viability of fetuses of at least 20 weeks of gestation, making it a felony to abort a viable fetus unless the pregnancy puts a woman at risk of death or serious injury. (atlantablackstar.com)
  • Definitions specify the stage of development, embryonic (≤ 10 weeks of gestation) or fetal (≥ 11 weeks). (msdmanuals.com)
  • The Senate Judiciary Committee has published a report detailing the scope of aborted baby body parts profiteering from its investigation into biotech firms that were caught illegally selling tissue from aborted babies last year. (christianpost.com)
  • Two bioscience companies have reached a $7.785-million settlement with the Orange County district attorney's office over allegations that they illegally sold fetal tissue to companies around the world, prosecutors said Friday. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • This settlement seized all profits from DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences, which they acquired by viewing body parts as a commodity and illegally selling fetal tissues for valuable consideration. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • Scott Anthony Orton, who made the threats under the username "Joseywhales," posted comments on the site in July 2015 about his intention to travel to Placerville, California to kill managers at StemExpress LLC, a biotech firm that was involved in the health provider's fetal tissue donation program. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • For example, in the 1950s, scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden propagated a polio virus in fetal cell lines to make into a polio vaccine. (wikipedia.org)
  • The common ground, however, may come if significant treatment or cures are found with fetal tissue research by scientists anywhere in the world. (religionnews.com)
  • The request came after the Trump administration said it would ban the use of human fetal tissue in scientific and medical research by government scientists, in a decision one stem-cell biologist told Nature would "set back research. (newsweek.com)
  • A new study has allowed scientists to watch the Zika virus destroy nascent brain cells in mice fetuses, proving definitively the link between the virus and birth defects in humans as well as cementing suspicions that the strain of Zika spreading in Latin America is a more dangerous mutation than those seen previously. (breitbart.com)
  • In January of 2021, she filed HR-568, the Safe Research Act, which has 26 co-sponsors and has been gestating in the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce since its introduction. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • METHODS: From Nov 7, 2021, to Feb 24, 2022, we conducted a public health investigation involving 15 agencies and medical centres in the USA. (cdc.gov)
  • The vaccines do not contain any of the original fetal tissue or cells or cells derived from fetal materials. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Rebecca Taylor has pointed out , ALSA also has given money to an affiliate, NEALS, that has given money to a trial that uses stem cells derived from the spinal cord of an aborted fetus. (flfamily.org)
  • Doctors have found the Zika virus in areas of the body protected from the immune system, such as seminal fluid, fetal brain tissue, and the placenta. (breitbart.com)
  • Recent infection with yellow fever virus was confirmed in all four organ recipients by identification of yellow fever virus RNA consistent with the 17D vaccine strain in brain tissue from one recipient and seroconversion after transplantation in three recipients. (cdc.gov)
  • Fetal tissue also led to the development of the polio vaccine , and nobody wants to go back to the old-timey days of polio. (wonkette.com)
  • On December 14, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a response [2] to a question that many Catholics had recently been asking: Is it permissible to get vaccinated for COVID-19 if the development of the vaccine involved cell lines derived from aborted fetuses? (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • The use of fetal tissue in vaccine development is the practice of researching, developing, and producing vaccines through growing viruses in cultured (laboratory-grown) cells that were originally derived from human fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many other vaccines, including those for chicken pox and rubella, are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue from two pregnancies terminated in the 1960s, for reasons unrelated to vaccine development. (wikipedia.org)
  • If you'll notice in the list of vaccine ingredients above, the vaccines that are currently in use today are all derived from two fetal cell strains: WI-38 and MRC-5. (truthsnitch.com)
  • Roman Catholic leaders in St. Louis and New Orleans are advising Catholics that the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is "morally compromised," saying it is produced using a cell line derived from an aborted fetus. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • The signatories described the use of fetal cell lines as "ethically problematic," and asked Hahn "not only ensure that Americans will have access to a COVID vaccine that is free of ethical concerns, but to encourage and incentivize pharmaceutical companies to use only ethical cell lines or processes for producing vaccines. (newsweek.com)
  • 5 In addition to future coronavirus vaccines, several vaccines used for other diseases can be designated as "unethical" because their production methods use tissues derived from aborted human fetuses to cultivate vaccine viruses. (clmagazine.org)
  • 7 Its founder, Debra Vinnedge, was prominently featured in Meredith Wadman's 2017 book The Vaccine Race , which offers a detailed history of vaccines developed using aborted human fetal tissue. (clmagazine.org)
  • If a vaccine is not derived from aborted fetal tissue, can it then be termed "ethical" and thus appropriate for administration to entire populations? (clmagazine.org)
  • After many years of vaccine research, I have found abundant evidence of corruption and unethical practices within drug companies and the government public health community. (clmagazine.org)
  • 9 This is a so-called "ethical" vaccine because it's not derived from aborted human fetuses. (clmagazine.org)
  • That vaccine-makers such as Pfizer and Moderna employed embryonic cell lines in their COVID-19 research may not be widely known outside medical and pro-life circles, but it's also not a secret. (americanuckradio.com)
  • She cited a statement that officials "have tried really hard not to share unless it's strictly necessary and mission-critical," which read: "One or more cell lines with an origin that can be traced back to human fetal tissue has been used in laboratory tests associated with the vaccine program. (americanuckradio.com)
  • Bush's announcement grieved patients' groups and many in the scientific and medical communities who believe embryonic stem-cell research could provide a cure for millions. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A report published by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity (CPI) quoted a National Institutes of Health official who said that "the fledgling stem-cell industry would profit tremendously from federal funding that would cover embryonic stem-cell research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • However, the ALSA has admitted that it gives some of its money to embryonic stem cell research and has no qualms about doing so in the future. (flfamily.org)
  • Note the ALSA page linked in the above has just recently been changed, and now notes that embryonic stem cell research "has raised ethical concerns. (flfamily.org)
  • Project ALS, another charity for ALS research, also funds embryonic stem cell research . (flfamily.org)
  • The MSCTC does not do any embryonic or aborted fetal stem cell research, ONLY ADULT and NON-EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH and CLINICAL TRIALS. (flfamily.org)
  • The John Paul II Medical Research Institute in Iowa City is doing research in several areas including ALS, and does not support embryonic stem cell research. (flfamily.org)
  • The Adult Stem Cell Technology Center, LLC is developing new methods for growth and application of adult stem cells, and does not support embryonic stem cell research. (flfamily.org)
  • The quandary is the following: Suppose that it is not possible to do the research proposed by using spontaneously aborted unborn babies who miscarry. (ewtn.com)
  • DESPITE YEARS OF SHOCK & DISGUST among Members of Congress over the abuse of unborn babies for the harvesting of their tissues, a new analysis, reported by Fox News writer Sam Dorman, shows "the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding $27 million in studies marked for use of fetal tissue. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • That aborted fetus was dissected at the Karolinska Institute in the lab of an eminent virologist named Sven Gard. (nationalgeographic.org)
  • As it turns out, selling fetal skins, brains, and other body parts is an extremely profitable endeavor. (christianpost.com)
  • In a Tuesday column on Townhall , McAleer recounted that matching up documents and invoices obtained by the Senate reveals that one employee of Advanced Biosciences Resources saw hundreds of dollars spent on just one fetal cadaver for an assortment of body parts two years ago. (christianpost.com)
  • The fetal skin cell line that PSPs are based on was taken from an electively aborted baby whose body was donated to the University. (hli.org)
  • In the video, Nucatola says specific body parts go for $30 to $100 and fetal livers are in high demand. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • He is the registrar of the college, the statutory body created to regulate medical practice. (sci-info-pages.com)
  • Biotechnology companies specializing in stem-cell research stand to reap huge financial windfalls from successful therapies developed via this science," said the CPI report. (christianitytoday.com)
  • But what if the cells used had come from the HeLa line, the first "immortal" cell line [5] still used for much research, obtained by Johns Hopkins in the 1950s from a young female African-American cancer patient without her consent? (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • The cell lines continue to replicate on their own and no further sources of fetal cells are needed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Immortalised cell lines are an important research tool offering a stable medium for experiments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetal cell lines have been used in the manufacture of vaccines since 1930s. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the first medical applications of cell lines derived from fetal tissues was their use in the production of the first polio vaccines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Descendants of the fibroblast cells from these fetuses have been growing in labs ever since, as the WI-38 and MRC-5 cell lines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vaccines that have been or are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue include: Adenovirus Chicken pox Ebola Polio Rabies Rubella Shingles Of these, the vaccines approved for use in the United States include some of those against rabies (Imovax), rubella, chicken pox, shingles, and adenovirus (as of January 2017). (wikipedia.org)
  • One historical cell line used in rubella vaccines was originally obtained from a fetus aborted due to infection with rubella. (wikipedia.org)
  • We are aware that, among the dozens of vaccines currently in development, some are being produced using old cell lines that were created from the cells of aborted babies," signatories said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • A 2005 document from the Pontifical Academy for Life considered the moral issues surrounding vaccines prepared in cell lines descended from aborted fetuses. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The pontifical academy also noted that Catholics have an obligation to use ethically-sourced vaccines when available, and have an obligation to speak up and request the development of new cell lines that are not derived from aborted fetuses. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • However, as regards common vaccines, such as those for chicken pox and measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), that may be derived from cell lines of aborted babies, the Vatican said they could be used by parents for "grave reasons" such as danger to their children's health. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • However, regardless of how strongly you support life, you may unknowingly be cooperating in aborted fetal cell research by purchasing products that use aborted fetuses either in the product itself or in its development. (hli.org)
  • To do this, they had to produce an army of never-tiring taste testers - that is, flavor receptors engineered from human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293, a fetal kidney cell line popular in pharmaceutical research). (hli.org)
  • Hayflick was setting out to create a cell line, a group of self-replicating cells, from the lungs of an aborted fetus which he thought would serve as a great tool for those seeking to make vaccines in a safe and clean environment. (nationalgeographic.org)
  • No. 34 first identifies a common situation causing moral problems: "For scientific research and for the production of vaccines or other products, cell lines are at times used which are the result of an illicit intervention against the life or physical integrity of a human being. (ewtn.com)
  • The Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center (MSCTC) at the University of Kansas Medical Center is only a year old, but is starting an increasing number of clinical trials and educational efforts. (flfamily.org)
  • Donate to ethical adult stem cell research! (flfamily.org)
  • Her work, still unfinished, included principally groundbreaking stem cell research at the International Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center. (pahausa.org)
  • As a recognized authority she was also part of a Vatican scientific advisory commission, Pontificia Academia pro Vita, presenting ethics of fetal medicine and stem cell transplantation. (pahausa.org)
  • Several types of cell lines created decades ago using fetal tissue exist and are widely used in medical manufacturing but the cells in them today are clones of the early cells, not the original tissue. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • In December, the Vatican said that "it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses" in the research and production process when "ethically irreproachable" vaccines aren't available to the public. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
  • Decades-old fetal cell lines are already used to make a number of common vaccines, including against chickenpox, shingles, Hepatitis A and Rubella. (newsweek.com)
  • A cell line is the term used to describe a culture of animal cells, in this case taken from fetuses, that can be cultivated repeatedly in a lab. (newsweek.com)
  • and the University of Pittsburgh are using the fetal kidney cell line HEK-293 for their research. (newsweek.com)
  • The Vatican's Academy for Life issued a document in 2017 with regard to vaccines using fetal cell lines from the 1960s to make rubella, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis A vaccines. (newsweek.com)
  • It is never ethically acceptable to intentionally destroy a human being, no matter how small," said a previous position paper by the Canadian Physicians for Life to the debate on stem cell research. (sci-info-pages.com)
  • He also lashed out at the hypocrisy of those who criticize him for his use of nasal linings of aborted fetuses, arguing that Western countries such as the US are already using embryonic cell implants to treat Parkinsons disease. (sci-info-pages.com)
  • We have been trying as much as possible not to mention the fetal cell lines," said the email. (americanuckradio.com)
  • Even now they're attending all the medical meetings and talking to all the stem cell companies. (ibtimes.com)
  • Let's get acquainted with the two aborted babies that the vaccines we inject our children with are grown on. (truthsnitch.com)
  • Ask yourself what possible reason could there be to inject the DNA of aborted human fetuses in anyone in the name of disease prevention? (lawfulrebel.com)
  • It was the first time that the College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia has heard of Huang's practice of using cells from aborted fetuses. (sci-info-pages.com)
  • Furthermore, mandating vaccines is a blatant violation of medical informed consent-a basic tenet of ethical medical practice. (clmagazine.org)
  • And my luck was that I entered brain research at the time, in the late 1960s, when modern neuroscience was born, and in the labora- tory where a new groundbreaking microscopic technique, the Falck-Hillarp monoamine histofluorescence method, had just been developed. (lu.se)
  • The report on Gu's study acknowledges that "the research raises a number of ethical questions" but glosses over the problems with "fetal tissue donation. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • But whether you participate in a challenge or just donate to important research, where should your donation go? (flfamily.org)
  • people can specify that their donation go to his ALS research team. (flfamily.org)
  • She added in the Fox News report: "'A majority of Republican and Democrat taxpayers don't want to be forced to pay university white coats tens of millions of dollars each year to implant fingers, scalps, eyes and other parts from aborted human fetuses into monkeys and mice for nightmarish experiments. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • While many vaccines are created using the tissue of various animals (cows, monkeys, chickens to name a few) and animal products (such as eggs), the use of tissue from aborted babies is superior for a number of reasons. (truthsnitch.com)
  • Along the way, we did work at the California Primate Research Center in Davis, California, with rhesus monkeys. (medscape.com)
  • We operated on more than 400 maternal monkeys, and we showed that we could safely do fetal surgery with low risk, although not risk-free. (medscape.com)
  • We followed the mother monkeys after they returned to the breeding colony to show that doing the fetal surgical intervention did not impair their future reproductive capacity. (medscape.com)
  • At that time, maternal/fetal ultrasonography was being refined, and for the first time, we were diagnosing birth defects in utero . (medscape.com)
  • Maternal and fetal testing is done to determine. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Time magazine reported that fetal tissue has contributed to vaccines for polio, rubella and chicken pox. (religionnews.com)
  • The Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, the National Right to Life Committee and the Catholic Alliance had all stepped up pressure on Bush, arguing that federal funding would condone the destruction of human lives in the name of medical research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • About 700 faculty at UW-Madison signed a letter arguing the bill would quash research that could lead to cures. (wuwm.com)
  • Venture capital groups will not invest in the state if we have restrictive policies in place that prevent companies from doing what they need to do to get research and cures out," Radspinner said. (wuwm.com)
  • In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, treatments and cures for serious diseases," PP spokesman Eric Ferraro said. (wnd.com)
  • This report* was developed to assist physicians, public health officials, and other health-care professionals respond to public concerns about recently recognized, serious complications of human parvovirus B19 (B19) infection, including transient aplastic crisis (TAC), chronic anemia, and fetal death. (cdc.gov)
  • A new study published in the British medical journal Lancet reveals a "striking magnitude of association between microcephaly and Zika virus infection" and warns readers to "prepare for a global epidemic of microcephaly and other manifestations of congenital Zika syndrome. (breitbart.com)
  • It's a safe and simple medical procedure that allows women to control whether and when to have babies, and, in certain cases when a pregnancy becomes life-threatening, it saves women's lives. (wonkette.com)
  • Under federal law , 42 U.S.C. Sec. 289g-2, it is legal to give or transfer fetal tissue, but not for "valuable consideration. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The term "valuable consideration" does not include reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue. (powerlineblog.com)
  • The definition of "valuable consideration" merely specifies that payments must be "reasonable" and "associated with" processing, preservation, storage, etc. of fetal tissue. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Federal law bans the sale of fetal tissue across state lines. (wuwm.com)
  • If Wisconsin would ban the use and sale of fresh fetal tissue, it would not be the first state to do so. (wuwm.com)
  • There is both the willing destruction of a life and the sale of the fetal tissue," Hamel said. (religionnews.com)
  • The agreement also requires the companies to admit liability for violations of state and federal laws prohibiting the sale or purchase of fetal tissue for research purposes, prosecutors said. (walkforlifewc.com)
  • It is illegal to profit from the sale of fetal tissue, though not illegal for expenses involved in its collection to be reimbursed. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • It would become a felony in Wisconsin to sell or experiment with remains of fetuses aborted after 2014 under a bill an Assembly committee approved Wednesday morning. (wuwm.com)
  • He took note of both the AP news story and its associated tweet using euphemisms to "soften the blow" of what was taking place, using such terms as "the disposition of parts from aborted fetuses" and "disposition of fetal remains. (wnd.com)
  • Limbaugh sarcastically noted they might as well "change the name from unviable mass to undocumented fetal remains. (wnd.com)
  • Still, it is essential that "fetuses, even dead fetuses, need to be treated with respect and dignity" at every stage, including burial of the remains after research is completed, said Hamel. (religionnews.com)
  • Others at the hearing likened medical research on fetal tissue to experiments Nazis conducted on humans. (wuwm.com)
  • The experiments were published in a study coauthored by a Duke University medical student, Eugene Gu. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Said Christine McPherson, development manager of an outfit called the White Coat Waste Project, which uncovered the funding and the research methods, in a statement to Fox News Digital , "'Anthony Fauci's spending on grotesque and wasteful animal experiments is out of control. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • The group includes human fetal tissue experimentation in its definition of "grotesque and wasteful animal experiments. (lifeadvocacy.com)
  • In one set of experiments, begun in 1994, he removed ovaries from ewes, froze strips of the ovarian tissue, then later reimplanted the tissue in the same animals. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Brucella melitensis in Asian from 14 aborted sheep fetuses from Nilka County. (cdc.gov)
  • We ana- isolate had a common multilocus variable-number tan- dem-repeat analysis 16 genotype, similar to bacterial iso- lyzed colonies by using a multilocus variable-number lates from local aborted sheep fetuses. (cdc.gov)
  • Research on spinal cord injuries and eyesight-robbing macular degeneration involves transplanting fetal cells into patients. (wonkette.com)
  • That trial is being run by the University of Michigan and Emory University, and sponsored by a company called Neuralstem which uses aborted fetus cells for research ("from the donated spinal cord tissue of an 8-week-old aborted fetus. (flfamily.org)
  • Hallan is just one of some 800 patients who have been seen by Huang, whose controversial approach to treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and spinal cord injuries by injecting cells from aborted fetuses has been skeptically received by many Western medical experts. (sci-info-pages.com)
  • And here we come to the next misleading argument that is posited to rationalize or justify the use of aborted babies in the production of vaccines. (truthsnitch.com)
  • Afterward they transplanted the thawed strips into mice that, thanks to genetic engineering, lacked an immune system and so couldn't reject the foreign tissue. (discovermagazine.com)
  • My research career has been unadventurous in the sense that I have remained at the same institution, Lund University in Sweden, where I started my medical studies in 1964. (lu.se)
  • These are derived either from tumors, which have developed resistance to cellular senescence, or from stem cells originally taken from aborted fetuses. (wikipedia.org)
  • can you get stem cells from aborted babies is important information accompanied by photo and HD pictures sourced from all websites in the world. (babytickers.net)
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  • In banning any and all products , food or otherwise, it is essentially banning the importation to Oklahoma of any products made from embryonic stem cells, since one cannot determine which cells are or are not derived from aborted fetuses. (thestranger.com)
  • Reuters) - A rogue surgeon injects stem cells from a fetus into a sick man's brain. (ibtimes.com)
  • We already knew that PepsiCo and other major food conglomerates use companies like Senomyx in order to test flavors and experiment with additives using kidney cells from aborted babies. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • Lastly, the BoPyV-1 strain infecting this fetus was isolated, causing a cytopathic effect in Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells. (cdc.gov)