• 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I've said it all along and will say it again: The antiabortion "sting" videos purporting to trap Planned Parenthood into admitting it harvests and sells aborted fetal parts for profit were as malicious as they were untrue. (latimes.com)
  • Asked to investigate Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, a branch of one of the country's most important healthcare providers for women, the grand jury found no wrongdoing on the part of the group, whose staffers were secretly videotaped talking about the cost of procuring fetal tissue for research. (latimes.com)
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America's senior director of medical services, Deborah Nucatola, was secretly videotaped as she ate lunch with people she believed to be executives from an Irvine human biologics company. (latimes.com)
  • Novogenix is one of the biomedical firms that Planned Parenthood works with to harvest fetal tissue, and then sell it to researchers. (lifesitenews.com)
  • 3. Planned Parenthood changes the abortion procedure to obtain "fully intact" aborted babies. (lifesitenews.com)
  • So Planned Parenthood instead makes adjustments to the abortion to get "fully intact" fetuses - in the process running the risk of babies being born alive. (lifesitenews.com)
  • As Melissa Farrell, Director of Research at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, admits: "Yeah, and so if we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Until earlier this month, StemExpress, a biotech company in northern California, was a " partner " with Planned Parenthood to obtain aborted baby parts in the name of research. (newsbusters.org)
  • After she talked about lab techs having "meltdowns" working with "fetal tissue," an actor asked Dyer about support from Planned Parenthood in her work. (newsbusters.org)
  • StemExpress, one of the tissue companies that works with Planned Parenthood, is cutting its ties with the women's health organization after a series of sting videos that have prompted congressional inquiries," reported Politico , August 14. (newsbusters.org)
  • The research arm of the Susan B. Anthony List also found that, "If Planned Parenthood were included for comparison, it would rank sixth in the world in number of abortions carried out annually. (newsbusters.org)
  • With a fourth House hearing on Planned Parenthood and its sale of aborted baby body parts taking place in Congress today, a conservative web site looking further into the scandal claims the Obama administration apparently is not conducting any oversight related to the abortion business' obtaining and selling body parts of aborted babies. (lifenews.com)
  • The Obama administration has steadfastly defended Planned Parenthood and its taxpayer funding throughout the scandal exposing its sales of aborted babies and their body parts for research. (lifenews.com)
  • The Obama administration has already been exposed as partnering with the middlemen who purchase aborted babies and their body parts from Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics. (lifenews.com)
  • According to the report in Politico , one of the biotech firms mentioned in the undercover videos identified as a fetal tissue supplier Planned Parenthood sold aborted babies to earned at least $300,000 from federal governmental agencies after selling fetal tissue to them. (lifenews.com)
  • Officials say they are unsure if the specific fetal tissue sold to the Obama administration came from babies aborted at Planned Parenthood. (lifenews.com)
  • As a report in The Stream indicates: "Under the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should be performing audits on Planned Parenthood, since Planned Parenthood is involved in research on aborted fetuses and HHS is supporting its work with funding. (lifenews.com)
  • The Stream filed its FOIA request with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of HHS in July, asking for documents and emails related to Planned Parenthood and the audits. (lifenews.com)
  • If this is accurate, what about all the harvesting of fetal body parts that Planned Parenthood itself categorizes as research? (lifenews.com)
  • Most of the emails appear to be internal discussions about how to respond to reporters' questions about Planned Parenthood selling fetal tissue and responses to reporters - essentially coordinated talking points for damage control within various divisions of HHS and even within the FDA. (lifenews.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)
  • 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)
  • This one prominently featured conversations with Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. (wnd.com)
  • Planned Parenthood doesn't do anything to warrant even $5," she added, noting that intact cadavers are worth hundreds and hundreds in payment to Planned Parenthood because of all the body parts that are valued by researchers. (wnd.com)
  • Abortion helped researchers develop a vaccine to reduce miscarriages, so women who want to have babies can do that. (wonkette.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In what was supposed to be some sort of "bombshell," antiabortion crusaders claimed that Nucatola admitted harvesting aborted fetal parts, changing abortion procedures to accommodate the harvesting of aborted fetal parts, then illegally selling the aborted fetal parts to medical researchers. (latimes.com)
  • Pro-life activists have long known, from first-hand testimonies by former nurses and abortion workers, that aborted babies are sometimes born alive after botched abortions. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Dr. James McMahon, for years the director of abortion instruction at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, claims to have adapted the procedure for abortion. (str.org)
  • The National Abortion Federation literature blandly describes partial-birth abortion as "a surgical technique performed in some later abortions in which the fetus is removed intact. (str.org)
  • By Sarah Quale - Despite Novavax's public statements that its COVID-19 vaccine does not have any connection to abortion-derived cell lines, evidence from a private letter and Novavax's own published study shows that the HEK293 aborted fetal cell line was used in the testing phase. (personhood.org)
  • Earlier this month, on March 9th 2022 , pro-life activists from several organizations, including Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), Pro-Life San Francisco, and Rehumanize International, accessed the fetal organ bank at the University of Washington School of Medicine which PAAU claims is the nation's largest fetal organ bank. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Unfortunately, the University of Washington is just another institution exposed in the abortion lobby's well-known pattern of handling aborted children's remains in creepy and unethical ways. (studentsforlife.org)
  • Researchers may accept and/or use human fetal tissue for transplantation into a relative of the donor or other individual designated by the donor (i.e., donor-designated recipient) only if the tissue is obtained from a spontaneous abortion or stillbirth. (umn.edu)
  • Conversely, some opponents of abortion have indicated their opposition to using aborted fetal tissue in developing a vaccine for novel coronavirus. (lifeissues.net)
  • Furthermore, even if a researcher is not directly responsible for the abortion, it is impermissible for them to conduct research on fetal tissue that they or their laboratory have obtained, even if there is a clear remove or distance between the agent of abortion and the research. (lifeissues.net)
  • 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)
  • A leading pro-life activist says the fifth undercover video depicting Planned Parenthood's alleged profiting off the sale of aborted baby parts is the clearest evidence yet of criminal activity, and she also says it's possible that abortion providers are delivering babies alive and killing them outside the womb to preserve the value of their parts for sale. (wnd.com)
  • But aborting them and stopping them from even being people….let's wear a 'I had an abortion' t-shirt and celebrate that! (thestranger.com)
  • I know a great number of people who oppose abortion, and who are therefore opposed to the biomedical use of tissue or cells that have been derived from foetuses aborted for that very purpose, although most of them do not oppose the use of foetal tissue from foetuses aborted for some other reason. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • It is a fact that the vaccine manufactures and the abortion industry have been working together since the 1960's using aborted baby tissue to develop vaccines on. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • The suggestion here is that the "abortion industry" (I was unaware that there was an established abortion industry in the same way that there is an auto industry) is regularly supplying aborted fetuses to vaccine manufacturers, who then use these fetuses to develop vaccines. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae said that researchers have "a duty to refuse to use such 'biological material' even when there is no close connection between the researcher and the actions of those who performed the artificial fertilization or the abortion. (angelusnews.com)
  • Chinese researchers concluded that increased parental exposure to phenols is associated with spontaneous abortion. (medscape.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)
  • altering abortions in order to harvest valuable organs intact , joking about " war torn " dismembered babies, and even alluding to " intact fetal cadavers . (texasrighttolife.com)
  • all studied the fetal dimensions obtained from spontaneous abortions and pathological pregnancies on mainly formed and fixed specimens. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • If the proposed research involves aborted fetal tissue, the application to FTR will include a written explanation of the need for human fetal tissue from induced abortions. (umn.edu)
  • ABP will procure human fetal tissue from tissue procurement organizations or clinics outside Minnesota that operate in compliance with federal law and applicable state laws and certify they do not obtain tissue from abortions performed in Minnesota. (umn.edu)
  • For context, NIH-funded research using human fetal tissue obtained from abortions was banned by the Trump Administration in 2019. (lifeissues.net)
  • What's more, no future abortions are needed, either, because cell lines (WI-38 and MRC-5) were grown using samples from those two fetuses. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Fetal height, fetal weight, head circumference (HC), crown to rump length (CR), dermatological observations like skin thickness etc. are measured individually to assess the growth and development of the organs and the fetus as a whole and can be a parameter for normal or abnormal development also including adaptation of the fetus to its newer environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fetal growth is not an individual growth and is dependent on the composite growth of the organs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Growth of the individual organs is controlled by the genetic potential, the environment provided by the mother and by the fetus itself. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • At the time of the experiment, researchers did not know which organ or organs the drugs affected, the ovaries and/or the anterior pituitary gland. (asu.edu)
  • A baby who is born dead," Dr. James Dobson notes, "is of less value to researchers because brain tissue and other organs quickly deteriorate when deprived of oxygen. (str.org)
  • Congressional hearings to investigate trafficking in fetal organs and tissue by private companies were held but nothing was done, Evans said. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • The cells that make up a specific immune response both circulate in the blood and are in organs and tissues that make up your immune system, such as the thymus, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, appendix, tonsils, and Peyer's patches in the small intestine. (hobblecreek.us)
  • Catholic doctrine forbids intentionally killing an embryo or fetus. (religionnews.com)
  • ABP also may accept donations of human fetal tissue obtained from a stillborn infant, or an embryo or fetus that died of natural causes in utero as authorized under applicable state laws. (umn.edu)
  • For those who conduct medical research, it is important to remember that it is morally impermissible to directly cause the death of an embryo or fetus for medical research, just as impermissible as it would be to cause the death of a child already born. (lifeissues.net)
  • 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)
  • The groups argue that rather than waste embryos that will be destroyed along with their stem cells, researchers should use them to help save those whose lives are being cut short by disease. (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)
  • According to this passage, the use of such "biological material" would be ethically permissible provided there is a clear separation between those who produce, freeze, and cause the death of embryos and researchers involved in scientific experimentation. (ewtn.com)
  • The researchers examined the effects of freezing conditions on bull sperm and how well they produce fertilized embryos once thawed. (asu.edu)
  • 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)
  • The videos show some of Planned Parenthood's top staff discussing compensation for the procurement of fetal body parts (Lamborghini, anyone? (texasrighttolife.com)
  • 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)
  • Today's video may be the most disturbing of the seven videos exposing Planned Parenthood's fetal body part trade. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Today's video just might be the most horrifying of the seven videos released by the Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood's practice of harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies. (lifesitenews.com)
  • As with the trailer, there's one word to describe the new video exposing Planned Parenthood's harvesting of aborted babies: demonic. (newsbusters.org)
  • 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)
  • One of Planned Parenthood's common defenses in recent weeks is to claim that any money it receives from companies is simply reimbursement for tissue procurement and shipping. (wnd.com)
  • They pretended to be seeking sources of fetal tissue for medical research. (latimes.com)
  • So while "further sources of fetal cells" are not needed to make those vaccines, as the products are prepared using descendent cells, which are not and never were part of an aborted child's body, they do, nonetheless, have a historical connection to aborted children. (lifeissues.net)
  • Specifically, according to HHS's own documents, 'Section 498A of the Public Health Service Act [42 USC 289g-1] requires the annual submission to Congress of a report describing research involving therapeutic transplantation of human fetal tissue supported or conducted by the NIH. (lifenews.com)
  • After that, "The NIH did not provide any financial support for human fetal tissue transplantation research. (lifenews.com)
  • University researchers ("researchers") may conduct research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue or cell lines derived from human fetal tissue ("human fetal tissue") for therapeutic purposes only in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations and University policies and procedures. (umn.edu)
  • Researchers must apply for approval from the FTR for the use of human fetal tissue and apply for approval from the IRB to conduct human fetal tissue transplantation research. (umn.edu)
  • He was a visiting INSERM researcher at the Institute de Biologie, Universite de Nantes, Nantes, France, in 1991-2, and visiting professor and consultant surgeon in renal transplantation surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, in 2003-4. (gu.se)
  • My major research achievements have been in the field of cell transplantation and brain repair. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Donate to ethical adult stem cell research! (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)
  • Knowing that alternative technologies are being developed, and morally free sources of voluntary tissue (placenta, umbilical cord) donation are available, the continued use of the same aborted fetal tissue lines purely for convenience and profit negates the "greater good" argument. (resistbiden.org)
  • To achieve this, researchers have explored various sources of NK cells, including those derived from the placenta, which offers benefits compared to other sources due to their limited ex vivo expansion potential. (bvsalud.org)
  • Diagnosis may be confirmed by observation of the aborted fetus with the complete placenta, although caution is recommended in making this diagnosis without ultrasonography because it can be difficult to determine if the miscarriage is complete. (medscape.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)
  • It is also one of several leading COVID vaccine candidates to use the cell-line HEK-293, which is "cultured from an electively aborted human fetus," as Archbishop Fisher said. (angelusnews.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • No human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue, including HEK293 cells, are used in the development, manufacture, or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. (personhood.org)
  • In this same letter, Novavax also stated that "fetal-derived cell lines were not used in the manufacture, testing, or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine. (personhood.org)
  • The use of aborted human cell lines is not necessary at any point in the vaccine creation process-design, production, or testing. (personhood.org)
  • A parent accepting a rubella vaccination derived from descendent cells is quite distinct from actively developing a COVID-19 vaccine using the fetal tissue of aborted children. (lifeissues.net)
  • Research is underway to develop a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 that would not utilize fetal tissue, or even descendant cells, in any way. (lifeissues.net)
  • Just as a parent should articulate his concern and support for alternatives when grave health reasons prompt his acceptance of the rubella vaccine for his child, so ordinary citizens should now indicate their support - ahead of time, as it were - for vaccines which will not utilize aborted fetal tissue in research. (lifeissues.net)
  • If we wish to avoid the unhappy situation in which an effective - but morally illicit - vaccine has been developed by utilizing fetal tissue, with use of that vaccine perhaps even required by law, then moral responsibility demands researchers and ordinary citizens acting now to support valid means of producing the vaccine and indicating, now , that they will not cooperate with illicit medical care. (lifeissues.net)
  • So, researchers infect cells with a virus to get more viruses to use in a vaccine. (thevaccinemom.com)
  • When I first began giving vaccines in the early 2000s I was concerned when I discovered the use of fetal tissue in vaccine production. (resistbiden.org)
  • Schneider's article equates the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccine development to the 'testing' applied to his list of often-prescribed and common OTC medications. (resistbiden.org)
  • however, neither fetus was aborted for the purposes of vaccine development . (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • The vaccines currently being made with aborted baby tissue are the Hepatitis A, Measles Vaccine, (MMR) Rubella vaccine and some flu vaccines . (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, has called on the country's government to fund an ethical coronavirus vaccine not derived from the cells of aborted children. (angelusnews.com)
  • In response, deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said that "the reality for the vaccines is that they need cell cultures in order for us to grow them," and that "strong ethical regulations" exist in vaccine development. (angelusnews.com)
  • A press release by CMP accompanying the video stressed, "Feticidal chemicals like digoxin cannot be used to kill the fetus in a tissue procurement case, so a fetus delivered intact for organ harvesting is likely to be a born-alive infant. (newsbusters.org)
  • Bush promised in January to review a Clinton administration rule that allowed federal funding for researchers experimenting on embryo cells from fertility clinics. (christianitytoday.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)
  • Researchers value the cells for their ability to replicate quickly and turn into any kind of human tissue. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted. (wonkette.com)
  • Research on spinal cord injuries and eyesight-robbing macular degeneration involves transplanting fetal cells into patients. (wonkette.com)
  • Which Cosmetics Use Fetal Cells? (hli.org)
  • Your children might enjoy using coffee creamers and eat soup with artificial flavor enhancers (Senomyx and Firmenich) tested on artificial taste buds engineered from aborted fetal cells. (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)
  • The merge does not seem to have stopped the use of aborted fetal cells in development. (hli.org)
  • If we take a sliver of fetal thymic issue and put it into a mouse, the mouse's white blood cells then get programmed to act as if they were from a person rather than from a mouse. (wuwm.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)
  • Children of God for Life has publicized the use of fetal cells taken from aborted babies used in the development of vaccines. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are currently doing clinical trials for patients with ALS, using ADULT STEM CELLS. (flfamily.org)
  • Nor have they visited the CDC website where aborted fetal cells are listed in the ingredients list s of various vaccines. (truthsnitch.com)
  • I don't know, maybe it's because they are looking for the words, "aborted fetal cells" which obviously aren't there. (truthsnitch.com)
  • However, the most important advantage to using tissue from aborted babies is that fetal cells can go through many more divisions than other cells before they die. (truthsnitch.com)
  • Fetal cells, however, are capable of going through many more divisions before dying. (truthsnitch.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Without fetal cells, we probably wouldn't have vaccines for German measles, chicken pox and polio. (latimes.com)
  • Some researchers have experimented with neural stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. (latimes.com)
  • Several vaccines already in wide use for other diseases, such as rubella, are "made by growing the viruses in fetal embryo fibroblast cells," which were "first obtained from elective termination of two pregnancies in the early 1960s. (lifeissues.net)
  • Still, they note "the grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines" if available, and to voice reservation and demand further research into alternatives not reliant on descendant cells. (lifeissues.net)
  • The latest experiments have also produced three lambs from the cells of a sheep fetus aborted after 26 days, and four from a nine-day-old embryo. (newscientist.com)
  • The researchers wanted to see whether "mature" cells that have differentiated to fulfil a specialised role (such as that of an udder cell or a fetal cell) could be returned to a primitive state from which they could grow into entire organisms. (newscientist.com)
  • Next, the researchers take cells containing donor genetic material. (newscientist.com)
  • Mammary glands are rich in these cells, which are more adaptable than other tissue. (newscientist.com)
  • The story of these life-saving shots includes aborted fetuses, snatched cells, and a discredited theory that refuses to die. (nationalgeographic.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)
  • Reuters) - A rogue surgeon injects stem cells from a fetus into a sick man's brain. (ibtimes.com)
  • During more recent years, his reseach has been conducted in the field of regenerative medicine, focussed on antigen expression and immune recognition of human embryonic stem cells and bioartificial heart valves, the latter tissues being of animal origin. (gu.se)
  • It didn't make the final video cut, but in the full-length transcript, when she's talking about this buyer that wants 120 fetal cadaver specimens, it's for a project to humanize mice, putting human cells into mice," she said. (wnd.com)
  • Are there fetal cells in vaccines? (thevaccinemom.com)
  • No. Do some vaccines contain viruses grown in cells from the human fetal origin? (thevaccinemom.com)
  • Cells in a culture can be grown directly from living tissues. (thevaccinemom.com)
  • The cells used to grow the viruses for these vaccines are descendants of aborted fetal cells. (thevaccinemom.com)
  • These cells are descendants of lung cells (human diploid lung fibroblasts) from a four-month-old female fetus aborted because the family felt they had too many children. (thevaccinemom.com)
  • All of the cells in this cell line are daughters of one cell found in the lung tissue of a fetus, generations removed from the original cell. (thevaccinemom.com)
  • In particular, the story claimed that Senomyx uses foetal cells, or substances derived from foetal cell lines, to create artificial flavourings. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • It's true: A company based out of California, known as Senomyx, is in the business of using aborted embryonic cells to test fake flavoring chemicals, both savory and sweet, which are then added to things like soft drinks, candy and cookies. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • And this brings us back to the kidney cells of the foetus aborted in the 1970s, a life that was never born yet will never die, but live on as HEK 293. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • It concerns vaccines containing live viruses which have been prepared from human cell lines of foetal origin, using tissues from aborted human foetuses as a source of such cells. (resistbiden.org)
  • To say that the diploid cells in some vaccines today are aborted fetal tissue is like saying that the orange juice you had for breakfast was actually a 6,000 year old orange tree. (harpocratesspeaks.com)
  • As a multicellular creature, you have dedicated cells or tissues to deal with the threat of infection. (hobblecreek.us)
  • During this period, 1975-1985, my group pioneered this approach using cells obtained from the fetal brain. (lu.se)
  • An important aspect of the work is the direct comparison of stem cell-derived cells with authentic midbrain dopamine neurons obtained from 6-9 week old aborted human fetuses. (lu.se)
  • In recent decades, mesenchymal stem cells show great potential to advance the field of regenerative medicine and oncology research due to representing prominent characteristics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Recently, adipose tissue, as a suitable source of harvesting mesenchymal stem cells, has attracted the attention of many researchers in the field of regenerative medicine. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells can self-renew and differentiate into different types of cells such as adipocytes, chondrocytes, and osteoblasts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Recently, in the light of many efforts in the field of regenerative medicine, mice have gained increasing interest as a suitable source of adipose tissue for the extraction of mesenchymal stem cells, which can be used in the preclinical investigations in order to aid in the treatment of many human diseases. (bvsalud.org)
  • 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)
  • The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released an eighth investigative video on August 25 featuring StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admitting that her company receives "intact" aborted baby "cases" from clinics and laughing over the thought of shipping baby heads. (newsbusters.org)
  • Consistent with the company's prior public statements, StemExpress has never requested, received or provided to a researcher an 'intact fetus. (newsbusters.org)
  • CMP released the eighth video after a Los Angeles judge dissolved a temporary restraining order on the Center for Medical Progress' footage of StemExpress on Friday, August 21. (newsbusters.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In the video, Nucatola says specific body parts go for $30 to $100 and fetal livers are in high demand. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • Ultimately, the only documents turned over were the redacted emails and several letters from HHS to Congress stating that the National Institute of Health (another part of HHS) had no required reports to give Congress about research on transplanting human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes because NIH hadn't been involved with any such work. (lifenews.com)
  • Adipose tissue, especially brown type, is considered an attractive cell source for various therapeutic purposes, such as restoring damaged tissue or fighting against diseases such as obesity. (bvsalud.org)
  • President Clinton added a new twist when he approved government-funded research using brain tissue from aborted children. (str.org)
  • it also produces a cash crop: fetal brain tissue. (str.org)
  • With its head still in the birth canal and its legs, arms and the rest of its body dangling on the outside of the mother, the brain tissue is extracted, usually while the baby is still alive. (str.org)
  • The undercover videos, she said, showed "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain. (latimes.com)
  • WI-38 is a 3 month old female fetus who belonged to two married parents living in Stockholm, Sweden in 1962. (truthsnitch.com)
  • David Daleiden, the antiabortion zealot who created the Center for Medical Progress as a front for his deceptive efforts, has been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a government record. (latimes.com)
  • In July, the first of several Center for Medical Progress videos was released. (latimes.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)
  • That's different from the Center for Medical Progress , the group behind the sting videos. (vox.com)
  • On Tuesday, the Center for Medical Progress released the fifth in a series of undercover videos . (wnd.com)
  • The Center for Medical Progress promises more shoes will drop in future video releases. (wnd.com)
  • Farrell and the investigators hold lengthy discussions about obtaining intact fetus cadavers for research and how to word the transaction on any forms. (wnd.com)
  • Time magazine reported that fetal tissue has contributed to vaccines for polio, rubella and chicken pox. (religionnews.com)
  • One version of the approach he envisions involves giving a woman back some of her ovarian tissue if she has been somehow sterilized. (discovermagazine.com)
  • 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)
  • Second, some pathogens just don't grow as well on animal tissue (like chicken pox) because they don't infect animals. (truthsnitch.com)
  • One of the first original and unique works to be conducted on the anthropometric measurement of the human fetus in the Indian context was conducted by a group of scientists in Calcutta between 1977 and 1987 under the supervision of K.L.Mukherjee, a stalwart in the field of medical biochemistry in Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research. (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)
  • Grant recipients included scientists at a private company looking at a condition that causes enlarged spleens, HIV researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and scientists studying neurodevelopmental disorders at Stanford University. (religionnews.com)
  • If an unborn baby in the fetal or embryonic stage of life dies as a result of a miscarriage it would not be immoral to do worthwhile scientific research using tissues taken from it. (ewtn.com)
  • She said she fainted on her first day on the job when she was asked to dissect a "freshly aborted" baby. (lifeeducationcouncil.com)
  • Before we continue, let's take a minute to see what a 15 week old baby (the average age of the aborted babies used to create these fetal strains) looks like in utero. (truthsnitch.com)
  • But if you're trying to get quality fetal tissue, you probably don't want to be tearing the unborn baby apart in his mother's womb. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Holly O'Donnell describes the moment after she and a co-worker had finished harvesting the brains from a fully intact aborted baby, when she was holding the body of the baby, thinking, "Oh my God, what am I doing. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Now, President Barack Obama has expanded that figure and the Obama administration currently spends $77 million in taxpayer funds to promote such research with aborted baby body parts via NIH, the National Institutes of Health. (lifenews.com)
  • The HEK293 cell line was originally harvested from the kidney of an aborted baby girl in 1973. (personhood.org)
  • The website also holds documents related to harvesting of aborted baby parts. (catholicfreepress.org)
  • There are multiple aborted fetal cell lines currently in use, and each one can be traced back to a preborn baby. (healthykidneyclub.com)
  • Senomyx is not putting aborted baby parts into your soda. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • According to an article on Live Science , "The research shows that it is feasible to remove a kidney from an aborted human fetus, and implant the organ into a rat, where the kidney can grow to a larger size. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • 2. There are other times when aborted babies are born with beating hearts before organ harvesting. (lifesitenews.com)
  • most active fetal organ bank in the nation located at the University of Washington in Seattle. (studentsforlife.org)
  • For decades, the topic of question pertaining to crown-rump length (CR), crown-heel length (CH), head circumference (HC) with respect to the body weight of human fetus at different time periods of gestation has baffled many developmental researchers and biostatisticians. (wikipedia.org)
  • Body weight, for example, is an important function and parameter for growth with respect to gestational age of the fetus. (wikipedia.org)
  • There will be great variations in the body weight of a 16 weeks old fetus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers observed that the liver weight is directly proportional to the body weight. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Nucatola's conversation may have been unsavory - who wants to talk about fetal body parts over salad? (latimes.com)
  • The federal government spent $19 million on research involving the body parts of aborted babies in 1999 at the end of the Clinton administration. (lifenews.com)
  • When they found the freezer, they were horrified to see rows of fetal body parts and whole bodies stuffed into labelled brown paper bags. (studentsforlife.org)
  • The American people must be made aware of the mass dehumanization of these unborn children who are violently killed and thrown into a freezer, whose body parts are then portioned out to researchers in pursuit of federal funding. (studentsforlife.org)
  • 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)
  • My use of the term 'intact cases' is a medical term of art that refers solely to 'intact livers,' as there was absolutely no mention of 'intact fetuses' at any point," Dyer said in a company release, reported by Free Beacon. (newsbusters.org)
  • Another concern for people of faith is news that experimental coronavirus vaccines could be produced using tissue derived from aborted babies. (clmagazine.org)
  • It is unsurprising, thus, that several lawmakers have urged Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to "waive the restrictions on research with human fetal tissue" and to allow the National Institute of Health to "utilize human fetal tissue" in coronavirus research. (lifeissues.net)
  • Transcript of Catholic Culture Podcast Episode 106, in which Michael Pakaluk and Jay Richards join host Thomas V. Mirus for a discussion of the moral issues involved with the production and testing of vaccines using illicitly-obtained fetal cell lines. (catholicculture.org)
  • According to Dr. Rene Leive in her " Brief History of Human Diploid Strains ," her parents "felt they already had too many children", so they decided to abort her. (truthsnitch.com)
  • This 'material' is sometimes made available commercially or distributed freely to research centers by governmental agencies having this function under the law. (ewtn.com)
  • The focus was on the effects of fetal bovine serum (FBS) replacement with pooled human serum (HS). (biomedcentral.com)
  • These studies are generally used by clinicians and pathologists for adequate assessments of the growth and development of the fetus at any specific point of gestational maturity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other footage appears to come from a collection of stock footage of fetuses. (vox.com)
  • It has been suggested that tissue-matched MSCs may increase the efficacy of their regenerative effects [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Whether and how the bodies of children lost to miscarriage or those who are stillborn can be used in medical research is a separate issue that requires careful consideration. (texasrighttolife.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • One abortionist, Ulrich Klopfer, was found after his death to have stored more than 2,200 sets of aborted fetal remains in his garage, and 165 more sets of fetal remains were found in his Mercedes-Benz. (studentsforlife.org)
  • When a medical school is keeping aborted babies in brown paper bags as though their human remains are nothing more than lunch meat, you know something is very wrong with our view on the sanctity of life. (studentsforlife.org)
  • 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)
  • If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. (wnd.com)
  • As demonstrated in the analysis, it is the human origin of the cell that makes it abjective and activates pollution discourse, when the researchers talk of their practice. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, mandating vaccines is a blatant violation of medical informed consent-a basic tenet of ethical medical practice. (clmagazine.org)