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  • US Department of Justice Implies True Justice is Killing Embryos

    By Susan Tyrrel • September 01, 2010 03:00 PM
    The headlines raged and rejoiced. They included words like stunned and shock. In keeping with disturbing national trends, the outcry across the nation’s newspapers was magnified, all because a judge upheld the law.
     
    We reported recently about Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued, who issued a preliminary injunction against embryonic stem-cell funding. Daring to stand in the face of a culture of death, and actually read the laws on the books and overturn federal funding for stem-cell research, Lamberth is being heralded more as a jester than a judge by much of the media and medical research industry. 
     
    The scientific community is in an uproar, declaring that we are devaluing life by standing for life. The Obama administration is suing to overturn the judge’s ruling because, as ABC News reports:
     
    "The court’s order causes irrevocable harm to the millions of extremely sick or injured people who stand to benefit from continuing research,” said Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler.
     
    Are you getting this? The United States Department of Justice is suing because a judge upheld a federal amendment designed to protect human embryos from destruction by not allowing them to be used for research. This law, the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, has been on the books since 1996. Suddenly the loss of financial payouts has created an argument that says true justice is killing embryos so researchers in universities can experiment and maybe one day find a cure for a disease—even though adult stem-cell research is the field in which great promise for healing diseases has been evidentially shown.
     

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  • Judge Halts Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding

    By Susan Tyrrel • August 24, 2010 10:00 AM

    What do vaccines and federal court cases have in common? Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth from the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction against the Obama administration's plan to expand funding and use federal dollars for human embryonic stem cell research.

    You may want to read this post where we discussed the ins and outs of this case, but this is good news for pro-lifers. The plaintiffs sued because they asserted that by funding embryonic stem-cell research, there was a potential for "irreparable injury" to those doing ethical adult stem-cell research; it also argued that it violated federal law since the Dickey-Wicker Amendment prohibits federal funding of research that destroys human embryos, noting that “since 1994, Congress has expressly banned NIH from funding research in which human embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

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  • Order Forms for Baby Body Parts (Video)

    By Matt Lockett • August 17, 2010 12:12 PM

    If you have not yet read our series "Industry of Death," I want to encourage you do that soon. It takes an academic look at how the abortion industry is intricately woven into the fabric of our society more than we ever realized. Specifically the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical research and even cosmetics mean big money for those profiting off the destruction of life in the womb. In fact the six-part series continues to grow with subsequent articles.

    Think this isn't real or merely imaginative speculation? In the following video, Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life reads directly from order forms of research labs that detail the trafficking of fetal body parts.

    Video after the jump.

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  • FDA Sanctions First Embryonic Stem-Cell Resreach

    By Susan Tyrrel • August 02, 2010 12:00 PM
    We knew it was coming. Last week the FDA approved the first authorized study in the world on humans using embryonic stem cells. Did you catch that? Our nation, the one already famous for its reckless shedding of innocent blood, has now approved the use the cells of embryos (babies), to test drugs on other people.
     
    You can read all the news reports on any source, as it was reported from the New York Times to life-oriented blogs. But beyond reading it—do we get it? How do these things happen?
     
    It’s not hard to see the progression. As I have reported frequently lately, there is a vast industry of death surging through the veins of our nation. The history of fetal research runs rich and deep, thanks in part to regulations made during the Clinton administration. The Bush administration put some holds on these regulations, and it wasn’t until early 2009, after the inauguration of current-president Obama that we began to see the dam broken and the blood come rushing out again.

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  • The New Abortionist Might be Your Family Doctor

    By Susan Tyrrel • July 19, 2010 04:00 PM

    If the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education had its way, then every gynecologist would both help deliver and kill babies, at least in theory. And they sort of got it. A disturbing and lengthy article in the New York Times entitled “The New Abortion Providers” describes with details the quest in the United States to train more abortionists under the guise of common medical practice—to partake in this killing via normal (especially university) hospital and private practice care. Some of the revelations of this piece are perversely stunning.

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  • Vaccines' Slippery Slope

    By Susan Tyrrel • July 19, 2010 11:30 AM

    As I’ve written about the medical and pharmaceutical’s industry of death and creation of vaccines from aborted babies, I’ve observed a tangled web that’s arisen over our nation. With a monopoly on vaccines, the traditional pharmaceutical companies aren’t exactly threatened by those desiring to make ethical alternative vaccines, but a current case in the court is trying to change that. 

     

    As the founder of two pro-life medical companies, Dr. Theresa Deisher is trying to develop pro-life vaccines and other ethical research. Deisher who founded, AVM Biotechnology and Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI), has a reputable and impressive history in cellular research. In part, these companies were founded because “the use of aborted fetal tissue and embryonic cells in the discovery, development, and production of vaccines and pharmaceuticals has increased dramatically in the past decade” (AVM).
     
    When it comes to vaccines, there’s been a surge in development of alternatives in recent years. SCPI, AVM’s counterpart pharmaceutical company, exists to develop safe medicines that are also morally pure. According to the website:
     
    Over the past decade the use of aborted fetal material has slowly, almost imperceptibly, seeped into and become routine at many stages of drug discovery, development and commercialization, to the point where aborted fetal material is now being used to discover new food additives and flavor enhancers. (Source)

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  • Vaccine Alternatives

    By Susan Tyrrel • July 14, 2010 02:32 PM

     As I’ve written recently how most childhood vaccines are actually created with the cells of aborted babies, a question I get a lot is “How do I know if the vaccine I am supposed to get for my child has fetal tissue in it?” The answer is “It probably does.” But to find out you can check various sites such as this one or simply look at this copy from the vaccine manufacturer inserts. It’s actually pretty common knowledge and not hidden at all. However, there are some alternatives parents can consider.

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  • Some Things You Should Know About Vaccines

    By Susan Tyrrel • July 13, 2010 11:34 AM
    Perhaps no blog has stirred the hearts of readers like the second in our Industry of Death series which reported on the source of most commonly issued vaccines for children—aborted babies’ cells. Part of the fetal research industry financial benefit has been vaccine development, and before Roe V. Wade hit our nation, the cells of aborted babies were already being used in vaccines.
     
    The horror of this reality has caused both total strangers and close friends alike to contact me about this issue, asking for help, asking what to do. Of course, I can’t tell anyone what to do with such an intense and high-stakes decision. We all want children safe from disease but we don’t want to use abortion as the route to that safety. What a horrible situation for a pro-life parent. All I can do is research and give the information that maybe you won’t hear in another place so you can make an informed decision.
     
    Here’s what we do know about fetal cells used in vaccines: Most vaccines are grown from human diploid cells (HDCS); “HDCS refers to groups of human diploid cell strains that maintain normal human chromosomal numbers and characteristics, while dividing throughout their limited lifetime in a laboratory setting” (Evans 44). According to the National Network of Immunization Information:
     
    Two different strains of human diploid cell cultures made from fetuses have been used extensively for vaccine production for decades. One was developed in the United States in 1961 (called WI-38) and the other in the United Kingdom in 1966 (called MRC-5).
     
     
     

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  • Kagan, Cloning And Complicity

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 17, 2010 04:06 PM

    Those who only know me from my writing might think me to be a quiet person who sits inside writing all day. But I’m not. I tame my big mouth through my writing but this week it takes all that I have in me not to get a megaphone and climb to the top of tallest building in Washington, DC and yell “Don’t do it!”

    I’m talking about Elena Kagan, President Obama’s current Supreme Court nominee. I wrote about this a bit last week. As the Clinton Library released the Kagan papers, we saw that she was actually the main counsel behind advising Bill Clinton on the laws regarding cloning. To the average person reading these papers, it looks like Kagan was telling Clinton to support a legislative ban on human cloning. That’s sort of true, in Kagan-ese.

    What she actually says is that she thinks he should support a ban on cloning “entire human beings.”

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  • When The Past Becomes The Future

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 14, 2010 02:53 PM

    Last week I wrote a series for Bound4LIFE on abortion’s financial industry and its connections to the holocaust, which took me back a decade. In 2000 I wrote my master’s thesis, which happened to be on children's literature, using the novels Number the Stars and The Giver. The former is a beautiful story set in the Danish resistance in the Holocaust, the is latter a futuristic tale where society neutralizes everyone, getting rid of anything deemed inferior for the sake of the larger community. The title of my thesis was Hurtling Forward into the Past. The point I asserted was that if we continued in our present culture we would literally march forward into the past by creating a society in which we had a new and bigger holocaust because it would no longer be limited to only one people group.

    Writing that thesis occurred in the same season as my revelation of real Christianity as it crashed against secular humanism in academia. Graduate school gave me a master’s degree, but it felt more like it was in theology than English. I was challenged, and I found my faith in my secular university. Writing that thesis taught me what I live by now; you have to know what you believe and why you believe it before it is challenged, or it won’t survive. The family in the Holocaust novel already has that firm foundation and they do not hesitate to join the resistance movement. In the futuristic novel, the community has been desensitized by accepting things without challenge. No one can remember back to the time when people thought and acted freely. They have become a non-thinking people, subject to the control of very nice but inwardly wicked rulers.

     

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  • Doomed To Repeat It

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 11, 2010 02:36 PM

    Your history teacher probably annoyed you saying “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It’s a true statement, though, especially for us as we watch the destruction of millions to abortion. And today my horror rose as I read that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was a part of the very cloning practices I wrote about only last week.

    As the Clinton library has released papers about Kagan, the ties between her to the very horrors of the death industry about which I just wrote grows stronger. According to Americans United for Life (AUL), “However, as the memo explains, Kagan’s ‘ban’ on cloning only banned the use of cloning aimed at the live-birth of a baby, not at cloning that takes human life.” That sounds nice enough, but if you recall, the distinction, if you recall, is as AUL says:

    “The cloning of human embryos creates living human beings in the earliest stage of development.  “Using them for research” means they will be “disaggregated” and killed as part of the research.  By endorsing such practices, Kagan demonstrated her disrespect for unborn human life.” (Source)

     

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 6

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 08, 2010 11:09 AM

    Conclusion - Hurtling forward into the past

     

    Last December I had a dream I still vividly recall. In it, I went down the road to a major drug store chain to buy things like toothpaste and shampoo, but there was a side room. It wasn’t until I heard the sucking sound and saw the secretive clerk that I realized they were doing abortions with the same ease someone bought nail polish, and the clerk was disposing of the remains.

    Writing this series has brought that dream to the surface. After my research, the bulk of which was academic and scientific, I imagine that my dream could be a reality in the near future. Why couldn’t it? Drug stores have “convenience clinics.” Abortion is legal. And we have learned that even Congress wouldn’t stop body parts selling. Just this past week we found a late-term abortion clinic in FL offering a special $50 off a late term abortion if the customer comes on Sunday.

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 5

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 07, 2010 02:40 PM

    Part V - America's Nuremberg

     

    “Some research may, by necessity, involve deception.” This line doesn’t come from the villain’s secret lab in an old movie, rather it comes from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s (UTHSC-H) research handbook. The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) covers research that involves human participants. Institutions receiving federal funds must have an Internal Review Board (IRB) even for the non-funded research. As UTHSC-H’s link above explains, this review process has its origins in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg trials actually were a catalyst in ensuring that medical research was ethical; hence, the creation of the Nuremberg Code.

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 4

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 04, 2010 11:55 AM

    Part IV - From clone to cadaver

     

    Until Dolly the Sheep made world headlines in 1996, cloning was an issue we reserved for sci-fi stories. Then suddenly we were presented with the reality of the viability of cloning. And the abortion industry already knew it. Cloning makes for great movies about doppelgangers, but in the real world, cloning is planned abortion.

    As 2004 opened, New Jersey passed a frightening law that essentially allowed human cloning of an embryo to be implanted in the womb as long as the baby was aborted. Some believe this restriction on growing a new life would actually result in fetal farming by cloning the baby and then killing it before birth and taking the fetal remains for research. Although the bill’s text bans the sale of humans, it allows for “reasonable” payment of service. Ethicist Robert P. George from Princeton University, was one of several on a presidential ethics council who addressed this concern to the governor of New Jersey who wrote:

    Although the legislation purports to ban trafficking in fetal body parts for "valuable consideration," it expressly permits "reasonable payment" for "removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue." This is a virtual invitation to cloning entrepreneurs to conduct …what would amount to fetal farming for research...

     

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 3

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 03, 2010 11:15 AM

    Part III- Babies in the lab

    The last couple blogs we’ve been looking at some of the underside of the abortion industry that goes beyond the insidious ways of Planned Parenthood and into the universities, medical labs, and even our bodies. Much of this was highlighted through current research by Vicki Evans, although aspects of this have been known by many for some time. One aspect that Evans addresses is the subject of fetus farming. The name itself plants a horrific image in our minds, and it should because it’s exactly what it sounds like, literally creating life to destroy it. The tentacles of this industry of death extend throughout all of society and have roots in stem cell research. Many of us have heard about this and even ethical applications of it, but the way in which stem cells play into the abortion industry are the underpinnings of fetus farming.

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 2

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 02, 2010 11:17 AM

    Part II - When improving our lives costs the lives of the unborn

    Are you on medication? Have you had a vaccine? Do you use wrinkle cream? Chances are you may have part of an aborted baby in you. In 1980 the Bayh-Doyle Act created the right for universities to patent federally-funded research and then to grant exclusive license to drug companies ( Vicki Evans 42). Repeatedly cited as some of the highest profiting industries, the pharmaceutical companies are benefiting vastly off of abortion and have great power and control over resources in this nation. Evans points out that “The drug companies through their lobbying arm, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), had become one of the most powerful political forces in the country” ( Evans 43).

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 1

    By Susan Tyrrel • June 01, 2010 12:36 PM

    Part I - When Abortion and Human Trafficking Meet

    Often in the pro-life movement we think of abortion as an isolated thing. We see it as the debate between those who know life begins at conception and those who think abortion is choice, but the depths of this industry lead so much further into darkness than we can imagine.  Recently, a disturbing but substantiated piece of research was presented to me. So alarming were the findings that I found my cries for mercy for our nation more desperate than ever.

    Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns wrote her thesis last year on the side of the abortion industry pro-aborts don’t want us to discuss: The financial side. I encourage you to take time to actually read a PDF of this research. I’ve read it. It’s credible and it’s terrifying.

    Fetal research is a profitable industry that goes far beyond the abortion clinics themselves. While we know that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics profit nicely off abortions, what happens when those babies are killed is more alarming. Technically, fetuses are reported to be disposed of as organic medical waste, but Evans points out that that doesn’t always happen and cites that “Stericycle, the largest medical waste disposal company in the country, refuses to dispose of fetal remains due to a clause in their drivers’ labor contract that allows the drivers to refuse to accept fetal waste. Typically, cremation of the remains takes place or they are released into the sewage system” (27).

    Evans goes on to cite a study by Life Dynamics regarding wholesaling fetuses:

    Three participants are commonly involved---the “seller,” the “buyer,” and the “wholesaler.”  The wholesaler (or middleman) enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic (the seller) to pay a monthly “site-fee”, comparable to rent, to the clinic. In exchange, the wholesaler is allowed to position a retrieval agent inside the clinic, where he is given access to the dead fetuses and a workspace to harvest their parts. (27)

     

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