30 million Abortions a year

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This fact alone trumps all other political realities and is at the

root of why human civilization is at its lowest point ever.

In the US alone more than 16 lakh=1,600,000 foetuses are aborted

> legally each year and in the rest of the world this figure stands

at 3 crores=30 million.

 

 

 

vediculture, "mbranparker" <mbranparker>

wrote:

>

> The Foetal Fund

> Kimbrell, however, presumes that the foetal organ market may dwarf

> the current organ transplant industry by the next century. He

> writes: "The harvesting of foetal parts is essential to a new

> research and transplantation industry. The new industry is based on

> transplanting foetal organs and organ subparts—most

> often `harvested' from elective abortions—into people, and

> increasingly into a variety of other animals. Although it is deeply

> controversial, the use of foetuses for research and transplantation

> has caused great excitement in the biomedical community. Many

> scientists and researchers have heralded foetal transplantation as

> one of the most promising areas of human biotechnology. Dr Antonin

> Scommenga, a prominent scientist in transplant technology, has

> declared that with foetal tissue use, `We are confronted with a

> biological revolution which is going to be just as important as the

> nuclear revolution was for physics' ".

>

> ONE LAKH= 100,000

> In the US alone more than 16 lakh=1,600,000 foetuses are aborted

> legally each year and in the rest of the world this figure stands

at

> 3 crores. Foetal parts transplants are particularly effective in

> curing Parkinson's disease and diabetes among others. The market

for

> foetal parts in USA alone is: Parkinson's disease: 10 lakh

patients,

> Alzheimer's disease: 30 lakh, Huntington's disease: 25,000 and

> diabetics: 60 lakh. In money terms, the potential diabetes market

is

> estimated at $ 3 billions and the Parkinson's disease market is

> valued at $ 3.5 billions.

>

> Already abortion clinics which lay claim to aborted foetuses are

> selling them to merchants who trade in foetal parts. This business

> alone makes up for a good volume in money terms in the USA. The

> undamaged extraction of the foetus provides for added advantages in

> surgical purposes. This entails abortion methods which are liable

to

> cause greater damage to the aborting woman. As a result, the focus

> is now riveted not on the health of the woman wanting an abortion

> but on an extraction which is safe for the foetus. Profits of the

> abortion clinics rest not so much on the fee that is charged to

> aborting women, but for the price that is in turn received from the

> sale of foetuses to medical and scientific institutes.

>

> Kimbrell touches upon the subject of fetal tissue transplant but

> regrettably fails to enlarge upon some of its potential

> ramifications. I have been inveighing for many years against the

use

> of electively aborted fetuses for tissue and organ transplantation.

> Incidentally, the spontaneously aborted fetus is to all intents and

> purposes useless as a mine for tissue and organs in that it has

> usually been dead for several days and if the tissues are not alive

> and fresh they cannot be used; further, perhaps 65 percent of all

> spontaneously aborted fetuses are chromosomally abnormal (instead

of

> 46 chromosomes they have 69 or 92, incompatible with life) and

> therefore must be discarded by the biogleaners.

>

> Kimbrell correctly points out that if harvesting of the electively

> aborted fetus becomes a commercial commonplace (and Bill Clinton

and

> his Rhodes-runners seem determined to bring this about), the

> ramifications of this technology will pose a myriad of knotty

> ethical questions: (a) Who is legitimately qualified to give

consent

> to the cannibalizing of the fetus? Certainly not the pregnant woman

> who condemned her fetus to death. (b) How many additional abortions

> will there be if women who are having difficulty with the abortion

> decision are persuaded that the tissues and organs of the fetus

will

> be used to save someone else's life, e.g., a sufferer from

> Parkinson's disease, or a severe uncontrollable diabetic? © The

> method of abortion will be dangerously altered, to suit the fetal

> tissue entrepreneurs. At present, only the pancreas of a fetus

> aborted between fourteen and twenty weeks is useful in the

> transplant treatment of diabetes. Mid-trimester abortions carry

with

> them a fifteen-fold increase in maternal mortality. A great many

> women will die in this orgy of greedy profiteering. (d) The market

> forces driving this technology are so powerful as to be all but

> irresistible. Consider: it requires the specific brain tissue of

> five fetuses aborted in the first trimester to treat a Parkinson's

> victim, assuming for the moment that fetal brain tissue is truly

> effective in the treatment of central nervous system disorders.

> (There are, in fact, many reputable neuroscientists who assert that

> the glowing reports of success with this technology reported in the

> November 1992 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine from the

> University of Colorado, Yale, and the University of Lund are

> attributable to the "placebo" effect, i.e., that invading the brain

> with a fine needle containing fetal brain cells injures the brain

in

> the area of the putamen and substantia nigra, and in healing itself

> the brain manufactures more dopamine, the chemical substance

lacking

> in Parkinson's disease: once the injury is completely healed the

> dopamine source is shut down and the patient reverts to the frozen

> state.)

>

> We now have 500,000 victims of Parkinson's disease in this country,

> and 40,000 new cases are reported every year. There are four

million

> sufferers from Alzheimer's disease (another disorder for which

fetal

> brain tissue has been touted as a cure) and 250,000 new cases

> annually. There are 750,000 cerebral palsy victims, two million

> stroke victims, thousands of paraplegics: to treat all these

> patients with fetal brain tissue transplant we will need at least

35

> million fetuses aborted at 9-12 weeks. At present, there are

800,000

> fetuses in the U.S. each year aborted during that period of

> pregnancy. How in the world is the demand to be met? (If we factor

> in RU-486, the French abortion pill, we will have perhaps half of

> that 800,000 figure, since the abortion pill causes a spontaneous

> abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy and the fetal tissues

> are useless for transplant.) Ergo, we have a demand for 35 million

> fetuses in the 9-12 week period and only 400,000 potentially useful

> ones. One does not have to be an astrophysicist to understand the

> attraction of recruiting Third World women by the millions to serve

> as fetal farms for those who need and can afford fetal tissue

> transplant therapy.

>

> Who will pay for this technology? The x-rays required to guide the

> needle bearing the fetal brain cells into the appropriate area in

> the brain to treat the specific disorder (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's,

> etc.) cost at least $5,000. Add to that the surgeon's fee, the

> nursing care costs, the immense outlay of money for physical

therapy

> and other rehabilitative measures for these patients, and you have

> an astronomical bill—on the order perhaps of $60,000 per cure. With

> only one million patients being treated annually (and one can only

> shudder at the immense clamor for treatment raised by the enormous

> number of families of sufferers who have been denied or put on the

> waiting list for the treatment) the annual national bill will be on

> the order of $60 billion—10 percent of what we now spend on all of

> health care today. And we are now confining ourselves only to

> central nervous system disorders; we have not considered the 1.4

> million diabetics who will undoubtedly seek fetal tissue treatment

> for their illness or the hundreds of thousands of chemotherapy

> patients who will demand fetal bone marrow transplants, to say

> nothing of leukemia victims and radiation therapy survivors who

also

> will demand fetal bone marrow. Where will it all end?

> http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9312/reviews/nathanson.html

>

> Of more than 50 such requests, or "protocols," submitted by

> scientists and reviewed for this article, none involved a deceased

> person more than 24 weeks old - - three weeks older than a fetus

who

> could survive outside the womb. The "whole intact leg" protocol

> described previously was requested by a scientist who needed four

to

> six "specimens (leg and hip joints) per shipment" from aborted

> fetuses 22 to 24 weeks old. Because the request called for the

> dissection to occur within 10 minutes of death, it is not difficult

> to imagine the required precision and speed of the dissection

> procedure occurring in a side room of an abortion clinic.

>

> The men and women who perform these tasks are called " technicians"

> and are employed by companies that retrieve body parts, also known

> as "harvesters," such as the Anatomic Gift Foundation of Laurel,

> Md., and Opening Lines, headquartered in West Frankfort, Ill. These

> companies act as middlemen of sorts between the abortion clinic and

> the scientist.

>

> Because the sale of human tissue or body parts is prohibited by

> federal law, the traffickers have worked out an arrangement to

> expedite the process from which they all benefit and still remain

> within current interpretations of the law. For instance, the

> harvesters receive the fetal material as a " donation" from the

> abortion clinic. In return, the clinic is paid a "site fee" for

> rental of lab space where technicians, employed by the harvesters,

> perform as many dissections as necessary to fill researcher

> manifests. The harvesters then "donate" the body parts to the

> researchers and, rather than pay the harvesters for the actual body

> parts, "donate" the cost of the retrieval (a service) via a formal

> price list.

>

> The fiction is that under this mutually acceptable agreement, no

> laws are broken: No body parts from aborted fetuses are sold. In

> nearly all cases, the entire fetus is not needed. Rather, the fetus

> is dissected and the parts shipped to either the private

> corporation, university, or government agency where the research is

> being conducted. Any remaining skin, tissue, bones, or organs are

> ground up in the sink disposal or incinerated.

>

> Brenda Bardsley, vice president of the Anatomic Gift Foundation, or

> AGF, tells Insight, "It's sad, but maybe it makes it [abortion]

> easier for us knowing that something good will come out of it." She

> adds, "We're doing our best in an unpleasant situation." Bardsley

> says the AGF's fetal-tissue retrieval accounts for "less than 10

> percent of the company's business" and there are strict rules

> controlling when and under what conditions a technician may perform

> the procedures. "The decision to go ahead with the abortion," says

> Bardsley, "must be made before the woman is approached about

> donation, and we don't get access to the cadaver until the

physician

> has firmly established death." Nearly 75 percent of the women who

> choose abortion agree to donate the fetal tissue, she says.

>

> As part of AGF's services, it also runs serology (blood tests) on

> women who have elected to have an abortion and requires that the

> medical director of the clinic advise such women if they are shown

> by the tests to have other medical conditions such as AIDS,

> hepatitis B or C, or syphilis.

>

> Along with its fetal-tissue harvesting, AGF also handles adult

> tissue. According to Bardsley, this is their main business, and

they

> handle "only about five to 10 fetal-tissue procedures a week from

> two different clinics." AGF charges a flat fee of as much as $280

> per specimen or individual body part. According to tax records

> provided to Insight by Bardsley, AGF's gross income has increased

> from a little more than $180,000 in 1994 to $2 million in 1998.

> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1306761/posts

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