The Butchering Of The Unborn And
Trafficking In Their Parts
(I wrote this piece in 2003)
In
February of 2000 the Ashville Tribune did an Investigative Documentary
entitled, “America’s Back Door for Aborted Fetal Tissue”. In the first
installment they wrote the following: “Technically speaking, what is being done
may not be illegal. It is simply the logical progression in a series of legal
decisions. Justice Blackmun and the judges involved in Roe v. Wade made their
decision solely based on a woman’s right to personal privacy. They did not
answer the question of when does life begin? Given that decision, multiple uses
of elective abortion fetuses became completely legal.”6
Roe v. Wade is without doubt one of the most ungodly
decisions by the Supreme Court. The decision did two things. It made abortion
on demand legal in all 50 states, and it also opened the door for the
butchering of babies, the processing of their parts in the same way a meat
processing plant would do, and the selling of parts to laboratories across the
country.
The following is a simple timeline
of the events leading up to where we are today. According to the Ashville
Tribune, because of the decriminalization of abortion in 1973, “researchers
were offered a golden opportunity to conduct research with aborted body parts
and tissues.” The Tribune goes on to say a controversy erupted in the
mid-eighties when published reports about the practices came to light. In 1988,
probably as a result of that controversy, the Reagan Administration issued a
moratorium on federal funds being used in fetal tissue research. President
Reagan also prohibited the tissue of babies from elective abortions to be used
in research. These federal prohibitions were continued in the elder Bush
Administration. In November of 1992 Bill Clinton was elected President. On
January 23,1993, the third day of his new administration, President Clinton
repealed the ban on taking organs from aborted children. In March of 1993,
Right to Life first reported on the procedure eventually called Partial Birth
Abortion. On June 10th 1993 President Clinton signed into law the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993. This
legislation authorized government funding
of research using tissue from aborted babies. As a result of this legislation
the NIH in December 1993 issued a 4.5 million dollar grant using federal funds
for such research. Then three months later in March of 1994 the National
Institutes of Health posted the following notice on its website under the
heading, “Availability of Human Fetal Tissue”.
“Human
embryonic and fetal tissues are available form [sic] the Central Laboratory for
Human Embryology at the University of Washington. The laboratory, which is
supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal
of [sic] abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40
days and term. Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and are
aseptically identified, staged and immediately processed according to the
requirements of individual investigators. Presently, processing methods include
immediate fixation, snap fixation, snap freezing in liquid nitrogen, and placement
in balanced salt solutions or media designated and/or supplied by
investigators. Specimens are shipped by overnight express, arriving the day
following procurement. The laboratory can also supply serial sections of human
embryos that have been preserved in methyl Carnoy’s fixative, embedded in
paraffin and sectioned at 5 microns. “7
From 1994 up to 1/27/08, the National Institutes of Health
has promised the overnight express delivery of the bodies of aborted babies
“between 40 days and term” (a fully developed infant). These “specimens are obtained within minutes
of passage”, these infants can then be “processed”, i.e. chopped up, “according
to the requirements of the individual investigators” and then “shipped by
overnight express, arriving the day following procurement.” It is unknown to me
if President George W. Bush has changed this availability. If he hasn’t, it
would mean that all through his administration, up to the Supreme Court
decision which upheld the 2003 Partial-birth abortion ban in 2007 (Gonzales v.
Carhart), it was business as usual as under Clinton. It is possible that this
was an oversight that President Bush did change the policy but it was not
removed from the NIH web sight.
During the early nineties, when all this
was coming to light, the abortion industry realized the wealth to be had by
producing nearly full term and full term babies, as compared to the “tray full
of pieces” produced by other abortion procedures. As Mark Crutcher of Life
Dynamics has said, “Fetal tissue marketing is the father of partial birth
abortion.”
Life Dynamics has done much of the ground
work in the investigation of fetal tissue research practices. As a result of
their research an ungodly industry has been uncovered. For instance, included
in their materials is a pricelist from a trafficker in body parts, a company
called Opening Lines. On the list, livers go for $125 and $150. Ears go for $50
and $75. Eyes go for $50 and $75. Limbs go for $150 for 2.8
Partial-birth abortion was developed and then perfected for the sole purpose of
the money involved. In the interview for the Ashville Tribune, Mark Crutcher
clearly demonstrates it this way. “…if you piece out all the parts and fill
eight to ten different orders, the dollar income for a 20 to 22 week old baby
could run $1500 to $2000 for the abortion plus
$3000 to $4000 for the parts for a total of $5000 or $6000”.6 Will God withhold His righteous judgment
from this human “chop shop” industry?
6 “In Their Words,” Ashville Tribune.
2/25/2000. www.ashvilletribune.com/in_their_words.htm
7
“Availability of Human Fetal Tissue”, NIH Guide, Volume 23, Number
10, March 11, 1994,
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not94-092.html.
8 “Opening
Lines,” www.ashevilletribune.com/price_list.htm
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