{"id":181750,"date":"2018-05-02T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=181750"},"modified":"2018-04-30T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:12:31","slug":"experiments-heads-abortion-survivors-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/experiments-heads-abortion-survivors-tax-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments on living heads of abortion survivors once funded by tax dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documented cases involving both living abortion survivors as well as aborted children who did not survive reveal that, for years, all taxpayers have funded grisly fetal research.\u00a0A previous Live Action News report found evidence<\/a> that as far back as the 1970s, aborted babies were being used for medical research funded by taxpayers.\u00a0The information was detailed in a GAO\u00a0document<\/a>, which reviewed EPA contracts with Automated Medical Services of Ohio, Inc. (AMSO) for the testing of human fetuses for pesticide residues and claims the specimens were collected from abortion facilities and from private physicians committing legal abortions. Read about this in more detail here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to a 1977 Defiance Crescent News article, “One EPA official said ‘there was some dispute’ over whether the aborted children to be used in the experiment were considered living<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Government dollars fund EPA research using aborted babies (Image credit: Defiance Crescent News 7\/29\/1977)<\/p><\/div>\n

A 1971 Albuquerque Journal article reported another instance where taxpayer money funded the equipment used in experiments on abortion survivors:<\/p>\n

Dr. Peter Adams of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, described experiments he conducted on fetuses aborted in Helsinki, Finland. Money for the actual research came from private sources, he said. But to the extent that his laboratory developed the research techniques and made equipment available, [National Institutes of Health] NIH money was used, he said. Adams\u2019 experiments involved pumping various fluids through the brain arteries of freshly aborted fetuses to learn more about how the fetal brain gets nourishment from the blood. Such information has potential application to embryology and treatment of premature infants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hackles Raised over Fetus Experiments (Image credit: Albuquerque Journal 11\/2\/1973)<\/p><\/div>\n

When questioned about the ethical nature of these kind of experiments, the article goes on to state how Adams suggested it might be unethical to waste an aborted child and \u201cnot use it in research that might benefit the living.\u201d Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead\u00a0also wrote about this case in 2003,\u00a0describing<\/a>\u00a0Adams’ experiments this way:<\/p>\n

Indeed, a mere six months after the decision in Roe v. Wade, Peter A. J. Adams, an associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, reported to the American Pediatric Research Society on research that he and his associates had conducted on 12 pre-born babies up to 20 weeks old who had survived hysterotomy abortions. Cutting the heads off the tiny babies, these scientists placed tubes in the main arteries feeding their brains. The researchers kept the heads of these babies alive, much as the Russians kept dogs\u2019 heads alive in the 1950s. In response to concerns raised about this \u201cresearch,\u201d Dr. Adams said, \u201cOnce society\u2019s declared a fetus dead, and abrogated its rights, I don\u2019t see any ethical problem\u2026 Whose rights are we going to protect, once we\u2019ve decided the fetus won\u2019t live?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite a moratorium put in place in the 1970s, by the 1980s, scientists needed\u00a0approval<\/a>\u00a0from an advisory board before human fetal experimentation could take place, and, if approved, it could be government funded. Then, according to a timeline\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by the National Academies Press:<\/p>\n

The Health Research Extension Act was passed, reauthorizing the National Institutes of Health. This legislation contained two important additions. First, a three-year moratorium was imposed on issuing waivers for fetal research, so that only research involving minimal risk or for therapeutic purposes would be allowed. Second, it called for the establishment of a Congressional Biomedical Ethics Board, comprised of members of Congress, to appoint and oversee a Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee (BEAC).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That board was established in 1987. Despite the moratorium, scientists carried out experiments by injecting human fetal parts into mice. They reportedly\u00a0said<\/a> that this kind of research was not restricted from receiving federal dollars because the aborted fetal parts were being injected into animals and not humans.<\/p>\n

By 1993, the floodgates would be opened. According to a GAO report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In March 1988, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) imposed a moratorium on the use of federal funds for research projects on therapeutic human fetal tissue transplantation until a panel, appointed by HHS, could study the ethical issues involved. In the fall of 1988, the panel concluded that the use of human fetal tissue in research is acceptable public policy, but the moratorium remained until the President [Bill Clinton] ordered<\/a> it lifted<\/a> in January 1993.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bill Clinton Signs Fetal Tissue Research Bill<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, according to a July 2015 Congressional Research Service<\/a> (CRS) report, “Federal law permits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund research on new therapies that involve the transplantation of human fetal tissue using tissue derived from an elective or spontaneous abortion, or from a stillbirth. However, human fetal tissue may be used for such purposes only if the following conditions are met:<\/p>\n

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  • The woman must provide her written consent that she is donating the fetal tissue for research, that the donation is being made without any restrictions on who may receive the tissue, and that she has not been informed of the identity of any such recipients.<\/li>\n
  • The attending physician must declare in writing that, in the case of an induced abortion (1) the woman\u2019s consent for the abortion was obtained prior to requesting or obtaining consent to donate the fetal tissue for research; (2) the timing, method, or procedures used to terminate the pregnancy were not altered in order to obtain the tissue; and (3) the abortion was performed in accordance with applicable state law. In addition, the attending physician must declare that the tissue has been donated with the woman\u2019s consent and that the woman has been fully informed of the physician\u2019s interest, if any, in the research, and of any medical or privacy risks associated with the tissue donation…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    As a result, millions of dollars are used each year to conduct fetal research, which, according to the previously mentioned\u00a0CRS report,<\/a>\u00a0involves abortions:<\/p>\n

    Fetal tissue used in research is obtained from elective abortions. Under certain rare circumstances, fetal tissue may also be obtained from a miscarriage, also called a spontaneous abortion, or following the removal of an ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when an embryo has implanted outside the uterus. Because the timing or recognition of a spontaneous abortion or ectopic pregnancy is unpredictable, and both conditions may result in a serious health emergency for the woman, the fetal tissue collected under these circumstances is often not suitable for research purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    A breakdown by the NIH shows the magnitude of the spending of our tax dollars annually:<\/p>\n

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    NIH funded government dollars for human fetal tissue research 2013-2018<\/p><\/div>\n

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    • 2018 – $81 million<\/li>\n
    • 2017 – $107 million<\/li>\n
    • 2016 – $103 million<\/li>\n
    • 2015 – $80 million<\/li>\n
    • 2014 – $76 million<\/li>\n
    • 2013 – $67 million<\/li>\n
    • 1999<\/a> – $17 million<\/li>\n
    • 1993-1996<\/a> – $6 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Putting the moral and ethical issues related to using the bodies of preborn infants for scientific experiments or research aside for a moment, some experts claim<\/a> the research is not even producing valid results.<\/p>\n

      Today, through this “research,” the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood<\/a> profit from the bodies of babies they abort. Gruesome details of the ghastly way in which fetal body parts are negotiated and obtained were recently exposed by the Center for Medical Progress<\/a>\u00a0(CMP) in undercover video footage.<\/p>\n

      One of the most horrific examples came from Holly O’Donnell, former procurement technician for Stem Express, who told CMP that she was instructed to cut \u201cthrough the face\u201d of a baby whose heart was still beating, in order to procure the brain tissue. She emotionally said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to do this.\u201d But then, she did. (start approx. 4:00)<\/p>\n