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Legal & Professional Researchers and abortion clinics are not abiding to the Federals regulations, which state that buying and selling of human fetal tissue is illegal since 1993. On March 8, 2000 the world witnessed through the undercover hidden camera, an interview with Dr. Miles Jones of Opening Lines, a fetal tissue broker on ABC’s “20/20.” During the interview, Dr. Jones asserted that the demand of organs and tissues determines the price at which he sells fetal body parts. Fetal tissue brokers and others involved in the Fetal Organ Harvest are not complying with the federal law. In order to circumvent the illegality of selling fetal body parts, the research institutes and the abortion clinics have joined with a third party, the fetal tissue wholesaler. The fetal tissue wholesaler pays the abortion clinics a “site fee” to place employees, known as “procurement agents,” who collect various body parts of the aborted fetuses as soon as the abortion process is finished and ship them to various research institutes. By having free access to all the desirable fetal tissue, these agents take the body parts that are requested to various researchers at pharmaceutical companies, university research laboratories and government agencies. The wholesaler is technically renting the space to harvest the body parts rather than paying for the tissue itself. The abortionist then “donates” the tissues to the wholesalers. At the other end of the transaction the wholesaler will “donate” the fetal material to researchers but bill them for the cost of retrieval. Thus the business deal is complete. In United States, it is now possible for the research clinics around the country including governmental research institutes to obtain fetal tissues and various body parts from the abortion clinics through this way. Below are few of the body parts listed for “sale.”
Brains: $999
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Ethical Salvaging of the fetal tissues from abortions is seen by some to involve complicity in an immoral act. Complicity implies that elective abortion, although legal, is immoral, and the use of the fetal tissue associates all the users with the initial immoral act. Those who are against the fetal tissue research or against abortions have argued that extreme case of acquisition of fetal tissue is performed through an abortion technique called Dilation and Extraction also known as partial birth abortion. Partial birth abortion technique, which was developed by Dr. Martin Haskell in 1992, minimizes damage to the uterus and cervix. In addition, this method guarantees the death of the baby. The Dilation and Extraction technique removes the unborn child intact, rather than being dismembered inside the uterus. The doctor begins by inserting into the woman’s cervix a device or a substance designed to gradually soften and dilate the cervix. On the following day, the woman receives anesthetic and the cervix is further dilated in order to rupture and drain the amniotic membranes. On the third day, the doctor turns the fetus to a “feet-first” position and delivers the fetal body through the vagina until only the head is left inside the uterus. The child is aborted by suctioning the brain tissue through a hole in the base of the skull, which the abortionist makes with blunt surgical scissors. The fetal head collapses enough to fit through the cervix. The actual removal of the fetus takes between 10 to 30 minutes. Diagram of the Dilation and Extraction http://lifeadvocate.com/arc/dx.htm The opponents of the fetal tissue research argues that the fetus’ brain which is sucked out through a catheter along with the body parts of the aborted baby is sold throughout the US to various research institutes. And, as 20/20 has discovered a “fresh” baby is under high demand to conduct medical experiments.
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