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Media Release
Demand for halt to grisly
trade in aborted baby body parts
August 24, 1999
According to an article in Alberta Report by Celeste McGovern, in their
August 23, 1999 edition, Steven Bamforth, a geneticist who deals in fetal
research in Edmonton, has stated, “If society said this research is not
acceptable, of course, we would immediately desist.” This statement raises many
questions. Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, asks:
Does society know that
Canadian researchers sort through aborted bodies obtained from local abortion sites
and ship body parts, eyes, hearts, livers and cardiac blood to research
facilities throughout the country? Does society know that Canadian researchers
order body parts from thriving U.S. businesses which derive their “product”
from 30 to 40 week aborted babies, especially taken from their mothers with great
care to preserve their monetary value as specimens?
Sometimes these mothers
protest, too late, and they are drugged so that their protests go unheeded. Frequently the babies are delivered alive
and then killed and turned over to be dissected. Price lists for body parts are
distributed to regular customers and courier services used to send the orders.
Does society know that
“suppliers” use partial birth abortion to deliver late term “specimens” to
research facilities? This grisly method of abortion is a way to obtain ideal
research specimens. Information on U.S.
suppliers is documented in the May issue of “Life Talk” a video magazine of
Life Dynamics of Texas, headed by Mark Crutcher.
Does society know that there
is no law, only non-enforced guidelines concerning fetal tissue collection. There is a moratorium on research in Canada,
which research facilities find a way to get around, but in the U.S. Bill
Clinton, in one of his first acts as President removed all such restrictions.
Does society know that to
date, work using fetal tissue for diseases such as Parkinson’s have produced unsatisfactory
results?
Society must be allowed to see
what is happening in research laboratories in Canada, funded by government
monies in the form of research grants.
Campaign Life Coalition
demands that the use of body parts from aborted babies cease; that cross-border
trade in parts from bodies obtained in this way be stopped and that the
profiteers of human misery, who have found a “product” to make their grisly
abortion trade even more profitable be prevented from operating in Canada.
James Hughes, CLC National
President (416) 219-9946
See body parts price list on following 2
pages
For further information
contact:
Celeste McGovern (250)
472-7582
or:
Mr. Mark Crutcher, Life
Dynamics, P.O. Box 2226, Denton, Texas, 76202
Phone: (940) 380-8800 FAX: (940) 380-8700