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Health & Healing




                                                                                gan child custody case. One partic-
                                                                                ularly interesting series of questions
                                                                                regarded the number of aborted
                                                                                babes Plotkin has used in his exper-
                                                                                iments:

                                                                                Question: “So this study involved 74
                                                                                fetuses, correct?”

                                                                                Plotkin: “Seventy-six.”
                                                                                Question: “And these fetuses were
                                                                                all three months or older when
                                                                                aborted, correct?”


                                                                                Plotkin: “Yes.”6
          Choice Pharmaceutical Institute    Aborted baby parts are used for
          (SCPI) lists dozens of vaccines and   experiments                     All cells (including those harvested
          medical products that contain abort-  Cell lines based on aborted babies   from aborted babies) have a finite
          ed fetal cell lines. This chart also lists   are used in the production of vari-  capacity to replicate due to cellular
          ethical vaccine alternatives when   ous products                      aging. This vaccine trial thus re-
          they are available. The morality of   There is fetal cellular DNA debris in   quired many cell lines in order to
          using these vaccines developed from   vaccines and medications.       achieve its end.
          fetal cell lines is a complicated issue,
          though there are ethical guidelines   The Fetal Tissue Marketplace    A Better Option: Adult Stem Cells
          available.                         Much research is currently being   Dr. David Vice is Adjunct Profes-
          SCPI is a biomedical research orga-  done with fetal cells. We can deduce   sor of Molecular Genetics at the
          nization headed by Theresa Deisher,   this because there is a lucrative mar-  John Paul II Institute and President
          who holds a PhD in Molecular and   ket for the parts of unborn babies.   of the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
          Cellular Physiology from Stanford                                     According to him, adult stem cells
          and has registered 23 patents in the   In a series of undercover videos,   are the new “gold standard” for
          field. Deisher, the first person to   David Daleiden’s Center for Medical   research and, unlike fetal stem cells,
          identify and patent stem cells from   Progress exposed Planned Parent-  have led to actual cures. He says
          the adult heart, has an insider’s un-  hood abortion clinics selling aborted   that “The superiority of adult stem
          derstanding of genetic engineering,   unborn baby parts to investigators   cells in the clinic and the mounting
          having worked for industry leaders   posing as medical researchers.   evidence supporting their effective-
          such as Amgen, Genetech, and                                          ness in regeneration and repair make
          Repligen.4                         The harvesting of organs from      adult stem cells the gold standard of
                                             aborted unborn babies has been     stem cells for patients.”
          SCPI “promotes awareness about     going on for years.  Dr. Theresa
          the widespread use of fetal human   Deisher first became aware of the   We should then ask why we are still
          material in drug discovery, devel-  use of aborted babies in drug re-  using embryonic cell lines when
          opment and commercialization.” It   search in 1996. Fresh aborted babies   adult stem cells have become the
          reveals that no vaccine product is   are abundant and are a time-saver   Gold Standard. There seems to be
          completely pure: “You will find con-  compared to the days spent obtain-  little excuse to use aborted babies in
          taminating DNA and cellular debris   ing and preparing animal tissue for   order to produce a product line.
          from the production cell in your   laboratory experiments.
          final product. When we switch from                                    U.S. Policy on Products That Use
          using animal cells to using human   Much more recently, in 2018, pro-  Aborted Babies
          cells we now have human DNA in     fessor emeritus Dr. Stanley Plot-  On the 20th Anniversary of Roe v.
          our vaccines and our drugs.”5      kin, lead developer of the Rubella   Wade in 1993, President Bill Clinton
                                             vaccine for the Wistar Institute in   signed five abortion-related mem-
          The problem is three-fold:         the 1960s, was deposed as an expert   oranda, one of which reversed the
                                             witness on Vaccinology in a Michi-  George H. W. Bush-era moratorium



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