{"id":193105,"date":"2018-12-24T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=193105"},"modified":"2018-12-24T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:54:50","slug":"bodies-babies-help-not-ethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bodies-babies-help-not-ethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the bodies of slaughtered babies to help others doesn’t make it ‘ethical’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Francis Collins, recently suggested that because aborted children are already dead, it is ethical to use their bodies for experiments in fetal research.\u00a0In an interview with the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/a>, Collins excused the grisly research, suggesting that using the bodies of deliberately slaughtered children might “save a life someday”:<\/p>\n

I do think that part of the argument has been missing a little bit in the fetal tissue debate: the sort of immediate assumption that if you\u2019re in support of fetal tissue research that you must also think abortion is just fine…Even for people who are pro-life, who are troubled by abortion,\u00a0the use of fetal tissue for research, since they are being derived anyway, if that is going to save a life someday, seems like a credible stance.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Collins added, \u201cTo take the results of that termination and discard it<\/strong>, versus trying to come up \u2014 in rare instances \u2014 for some kind of research application with full consent, seems to me like a totally ethical stance.”<\/p>\n

Sadly, we have heard this type of justification before during other atrocities.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hans M\u00fcnch was a Nazi research pathologist at an institute near Auschwitz who gave interesting insight into the mindset of the so-called “Angel of Death,” Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. M\u00fcnch told an Australian television outlet, recounted in an article\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by the Montreal Gazette, that he did not<\/em> believe members of Hitler’s Nazi party were forced to do “what they did against their will.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he was fully aware of the gassing being carried out at the concentration camp, M\u00fcnch replied, \u201cYes…One was always aware of the smell of burning. Everyone for miles around knew about it.\u201d He noted that at times he could hear the death moans of the victims, which he called \u201ca sound like no other.”<\/p>\n