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          on creating new fetal tissue for re-  partment of Health and Human
          search. Clinton claimed, “This mor-  Services (HHS) granted a second
          atorium has significantly hampered   90-day extension to a contract it has
          the development of possible treat-  with the University of California at
          ments for individuals afflicted with   San Francisco that requires UCSF
          serious diseases and disorders, such   to make “humanized mice” for
          as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s   ongoing AIDS research. The human
          disease, diabetes and leukemia.”   fetal tissue comes from late-term
          In 2006, there was a major debate   abortions.
          among bioethicists as to whether or
          not the United States would allow   CNSNews reported, “according to
          the use of new lines of aborted    an estimate it has published on its
          fetal stem cells in research. The   website, the National Institutes of
          medical research community had     Health (which is a division of HHS)
          already decided that the future lay   will spend $95 million this fiscal
          with human-animal hybrids and new   year alone on research that — like
          aborted fetal cell lines.          UCSF’s “humanized mouse” con-
                                             tract — uses human fetal tissue.”
          According to a statement submitted
          to the President’s Bioethics Council:  Read about how the Trump admin-
                                             istration limited the sale of fetal
          Aborted human DNA in our           parts.
          vaccines is not the end, it is only
          the beginning, as the creation of   Conclusion
          human-animal hybrids demon-        The Bible tells us that “the love of
          strates. A new aborted fetal cell line   money is the root of all evil” (1 Tim
          has been developed, called PerC6,   6:10). Nowhere is this more evident
          and licenses have been taken by over   as in the example of the growing in-
          50 partners, including the NIH and   dustry involving the use of aborted
          the Walter Reed Army Institute, to   unborn children. Research and de-
          use this cell line for new vaccine and   velopment continues into products
          biologics production. The goal of   ranging from various cosmetics to
          the company that created the PerC6   cures for various diseases (none of
          is to become the production cell   which have borne fruit). This grue-
          line for ALL vaccines, therapeutics   some trade in human bodies will
          antibodies, biologic drugs and gene   only continue until enough people
          therapy.                           stand up and oppose it effectively.


          In 2019, the United States De-



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