Aborted baby parts are unnecessary for scientific research

LifeNews.com | Dec 13 2018 | Dave Andrusko

In the video, the Planned Parenthood Medical Director explains why “Dismemberment” Abortion “Checkbox” Skirts Federal Partial-Birth Law. So, it is fine to obtain baby body parts for research…


National Right to Life News has reported… the Trump administration is planning to fund ethical alternatives to scavenging fetal tissue from aborted babies with $20 million over the next two years. This follows a decision by the Trump administration to terminate a “one-year, $15,900 contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources to acquire human fetal tissue ‘for implantation into severely immune-compromised mice to create chimeric animals that have a human immune system,’” according to The Daily Signal.

Tara Sander Lee, Ph. D., an Associate Scholar with Charlotte Lozier Institute, told the subcommittee

I stand before you today with a message of hope. We do not need fetal body parts from aborted babies to achieve future scientific and medical advancements. … [S]cience speaks for itself. After over 100 years of research, no therapies have been discovered or developed that require aborted fetal tissues.

David Prentice, Ph.D, an advisory board member and Chair for the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, talked specifically not only about the ethical issues raised, the importance of federal funding going to therapies that work, but also a number of alternatives… Read more.

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