Sources and Links
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The Evidence is In!
NIH Fetal Experimentation Funding Sponsors Infanticide, by David Daleiden, Washington Examiner, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/nih-fetal-experimentation-funding-sponsors-infanticide
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UCSF Admits to Using Aborted Baby Body Parts to Research HIV, by Emily Jones, CBNEWS.com, https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/november/ucsf-admits-to-using-aborted-baby-body-parts-to-research-hiv
Use of Aborted Fetal Tissue: Questions and Answers, Charlotte Lozier Institute https://lozierinstitute.org/use-of-aborted-fetal-tissue-questions-answers/ What are Humanized Mice?
Replication of CMV in the gut of HIV-infected individuals and epithelial barrier dysfunction https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006202#sec008 SCID-hu gut mice
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The Smoking Gun: Digoxin.
Effects of digoxin and delayed dilation and evacuation on fetal tissue quality: maximizing opportunities for research participation, Contraception Journal, https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(15)00311-X/abstract
Elimination of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells by cardiac glycosides, Contraception Journal, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509667
CMP and Dr Eleanor Drey, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDWpaal8nI, “Digging destroys the tissue […] we have a lot of UCSF […] we have so many researchers kind of tripping over […] so you’re supplying a lot to your local people […] so would you say your saturated […] so do you have to go through the university...so you don’t have the same freedom as the medical director […] “
Special Report: Partial-Birth Abortion at Planned Parenthood, Center for Medical Progress, https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/human-capital/special-report-partial-birth-abortion-at-planned-parenthood/ “Providers who use digoxin use it for one of two reasons. There’s a group of people who use it so they have no risk of violating the Federal Abortion Ban. Because if you induce a demise before the procedure, nobody’s going to say you did a “live”—whatever the federal government calls it. “Partial-birth abortion.” It’s not a medical term, it doesn’t exist in reality. So some people use it to avoid providing a “partial-birth abortion.” […] ABR’s and StemExpress’ customer demand typically requires late 2nd-trimester aborted fetal organs and tissues. In order to have viable stem cells, the body parts from the aborted fetus must be as intact as possible and a feticide like digoxin cannot have been used to kill the fetus before the abortion procedure. High quality organs are also easier to identify and more likely to be harvested from a fetus that is aborted intact, instead of a fetus that is torn apart through a dismemberment abortion procedure. […] Since Planned Parenthood only gets paid for the fetal specimens that are “usable” by the procurement companies, and StemExpress and ABR need viable, intact, late-term body parts, contracts such as these create a perfect storm of market demand to make illegal partial-birth abortions and even born-alive infant cases far more likely and desirable.
Abortion After the First Trimester, Innovating Education in Reproductive Health, https://www.innovating-education.org/2016/02/abortion-after-the-first-trimester-2/ UCSF doctor says on video that medication inductions, or delivery abortions, account for 5% of abortions after the 1st trimester (2:00-2:15, stat shown on chart in video)
Complications after Second Trimester Surgical and Medical Abortion, Reproductive Health Matters, https://societyfp.org/_documents/publications/grossman_ReprodHlthMatters_2008.pdf(p. 3), "In the medical induction group, the complications included the following [...] one woman delivered a fetus that showed signs of life [...] The medical induction group underwent abortion later in pregnancy than the surgical group (20.3 weeks compared with 18.4 weeks)[...]"
The Choice of Second Trimester Abortion Method: Evolution, Evidence and Ethics, Reproductive Health Matters, (p. 4), https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/S0968-8080%2808%2931378-0“Neither mifepristone nor misoprostol is feticidal. Although the fetus usually succumbs to the trauma of labour, a small proportion of immature fetuses aborts with signs of life, despite assertions to the contrary. These occurrences are emotionally difficult for the patient and her caregivers. According to federal law in the United States, such fetuses, independent of gestational age at expulsion, must be registered as live births, followed by a newborn death certificate. D&E obviates the possibility of signs of life and the need for feticidal injections."
Abortion At or Over 20 Weeks’ Gestation: Frequently Asked Questions, Congressional Research Service, (p. 17) https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45161.pdf, "[...]some fetuses at 22 weeks’ gestation or after may survive labor associated with medical abortion. An examination of the outcomes of extremely preterm infants from intended pregnancies—born between weeks 22 and 25—may shed some light on the viability of fetuses that survive a second trimester medical abortion."
Induction of fetal demise before abortion, Society of Family Planning, https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(10)00019-3/pdf, (p. 468) Early labor or extramural deliveries One of the concerns of iatrogenic demise is that the patient will go into labor and have an extramural delivery before her scheduled abortion procedure. This has occurred in several case series [...] Unscheduled delivery can cause a major ethical dilemma if the woman must go to the nearest hospital instead of the clinic where she is receiving abortion care. The use of a feticidal agent can circumvent the ethical dilemma of administering hopeless resuscitative measures or withholding care. When demise has already been induced, the care of the woman in very premature labor may be more standardized and available at hospitals than the specialized care an abortion clinic provides.
Labor induction abortion in the second trimester, Society of Family Planning, (section 10. What is the effect of feticide on labor induction abortion outcome?), https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(11)00057-6/pdf "Transient survival with misoprostol for labor induction abortion at greater than 18 weeks ranges from 0% to 50% and has been observed in up to 13% of abortions performed with high-dose oxytocin. Factors associated with a higher likelihood of transient fetal survival with labor induction abortion include increasing gestational age, decreasing abortion interval and the use of nonfeticidal inductive agents such as the PGE1 analogues."
Birth of a legal quandry: Live-birth abortions a perilous grey zone in Canada’s criminal code, National Post, https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/born-alive-dead-in-moments-grey-zone-of-live-birth-abortions-a-deep-divide-between-mps-and-physicians"In 1999, famed B.C. lawyer Thomas Berger won an $8.7-million settlement for Ximena Renaerts, a girl who was born alive following a bungled abortion at Vancouver General Hospital. Set aside by hospital staff for 40 minutes following an abortion, the child was still breathing when a hospital worker realized and called in a trauma team to save Ximena’s life — although she suffered severe brain damage as a result."
Mortality Records with Mention of International Classification of Diseases-10 code P96.4 (Termination of Pregnancy): United States, 2003-2014, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_policy/mortality-records-mentioning-termination-of-pregnancy.htm "The purpose of this analysis is to provide some additional information regarding infant deaths with this cause of death code. This category includes both spontaneous terminations of pregnancy and induced terminations of pregnancy. Analysis of the text as reported by the cause-of-death certifier show that of 588 deaths...143 (24.3%) could definitively be classified as involving an induced termination."
Special Report: Partial-Birth Abortion at Planned Parenthood, Center for Medical Progress, https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/human-capital/special-report-partial-birth-abortion-at-planned-parenthood/, ABR’s and StemExpress’ customer demand typically requires late 2nd-trimester aborted fetal organs and tissues. In order to have viable stem cells, the body parts from the aborted fetus must be as intact as possible and a feticide like digoxin cannot have been used to kill the fetus before the abortion procedure. High quality organs are also easier to identify and more likely to be harvested from a fetus that is aborted intact, instead of a fetus that is torn apart through a dismemberment abortion procedure. […] Since Planned Parenthood only gets paid for the fetal specimens that are “usable” by the procurement companies, and StemExpress and ABR need viable, intact, late-term body parts, contracts such as these create a perfect storm of market demand to make illegal partial-birth abortions and even born-alive infant cases far more likely and desirable.
NIH Fetal Experimentation Funding Sponsors Infanticide, by David Daleiden, Washington Examiner, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/nih-fetal-experimentation-funding-sponsors-infanticide, “Because we obtained the tissue from intact abdomens and removed the livers surgically under cGMP conditions, the tissue could be obtained in a sterile manner.” The FDA’s cGMP guidelines require sterile tissue transplantation products, which means the abortion must leave the fetus intact, with internal organs unexposed to external pathogens.
StemExpress CEO admits selling beating baby hearts, intact baby heads in Daleiden hearing, Live Action, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/stemexpress-ceo-admits-selling-beating-baby-hearts-intact-baby-heads-in-daleiden-hearing Stem cell expert Dr. Theresa Deisher testified September 18, the last day of the hearing, that in order to be used in research and on a Langendorff apparatus, a human fetal heart “has to be beating" when harvested from the baby. The heart must then “be arrested in a relaxed position” by perfusing it with a potassium solution to be transported to the research site, where it is started again electrically, she said. [...] Doe 12 says in the video there’s a great demand for “raw fetal tissue,” and that the “insanely fragile” neural or brain tissue is best shipped in a “whole calvarium,” or head, whereupon Daleiden says, “Just make sure the eyes are closed.”
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From the Mouths of Monsters
Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “Pay Attention To Who’s In The Room” To Deal With Infants Born Alive, Center for Medical Progress, http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2017/03/planned-parenthood-abortionist-pay-attention-to-whos-in-the-room-to-deal-with-infants-born-alive/
Planned Parenthood TX Doc: Harvesting Intact Fetal Heads “Will Give Me Something to Strive For” Center for Medical Progress, http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/10/planned-parenthood-tx-doc-harvesting-intact-fetal-heads-will-give-me-something-to-strive-for/
Dr. Deborah Nucatola conversation with undercover investigators, 25 July 2014, Center for Medical Progress, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMX7gIPEVss
Exploitation of Women -- The “Consent” Form
“It’s Stealing Baby Parts”: Whistleblower Saw StemExpress Take Fetus Parts from Planned Parenthood Without Patient Consent, Center for Medical Progress, “If there was like a high-gestated fetus, I have witnessed there was no consent signed, and these women didn’t know that it was getting taken,” reveals Holly O’Donnell, who worked for StemExpress from late 2012 to early 2013 inside some of the biggest Planned Parenthood clinics in northern California.
Massachusetts Abortionist Experiments on Fresh Brains of Down Syndrome Babies, Operation Rescue, https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/massachusetts-abortionist-experiments-on-fresh-brains-of-down-syndrome-babies/ [...] Abortionist Laurent C. Delli-Bovi, who is the founder and Medical Director at Women’s Health Services where abortions are done up to 23 weeks, co-authored a 2011 paper that studied the brains of 22 aborted babies, aged 14-22 weeks, to explore why those with Down syndrome experience mental retardation and early onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. The study was funded with public money from the National Institutes of Health. [...] All 22 aborted babies’ brains were used for experimentation within 2-4 hours after their deaths. This means that the brains were rushed to researchers who were standing by and had likely been notified that the brains were going to be available. [...] But the clincher is this: none of the mothers of these aborted babies consented to the use of their babies’ brains in Delli-Bovi’s research project. Because the brains of these 22 babies were considered “discarded tissue,” no consent from the mothers was ever obtained.
Abortionist Testifies at Fetal Parts Hearing: ‘Some of These Fetuses were Live Births’ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/abortionist-testifies-at-fetal-parts-hearing-some-of-these-fetuses-were-live-births/ [...] Smith also took issue with the idea of asking a pregnant woman for her consent to donate fetal tissue before rather than after her abortion, saying the only ethical option it is to ask for consent afterwards so the abortionist has no incentive to alter the procedure. [...] The judge then asked whether Smith was suggesting that women are easily manipulated, to which Smith replied that he said “patients,” not women. [...] Minutes later, Smith conceded that he does believe a pregnant woman is easily manipulated, saying a woman facing such a decision is very vulnerable to suggestion.
FDA buys ‘fresh’ aborted body parts from company referred for criminal charges, Live Action, https://www.liveaction.org/news/fda-fresh-aborted-criminal-charges/
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Financial Incentives to Deliver Infants Born Alive
$13,799,501 Federal Contract Requires UC San Francisco to Obtain Aborted-Baby Parts to Humanize Mice $13,799,501 Federal Contract Requires UC San Francisco to Obtain Aborted-Baby Parts to Humanize Mice
Your Tax Dollars Used to Merge Mice with Aborted Human Baby Body Parts: 'Abhorrent on so Many Levels' https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2019/october/your-tax-dollars-used-to-merge-mice-with-aborted-human-baby-body-parts-abhorrent-on-so-many-levels "It is deeply saddening to me that our own government would be part of creating this marketplace for the buying and selling of baby parts," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tells CBN News. He's one of the members of Congress leading the charge to educate members and Americans about the research.[...] Opponents agree this is important research, but argue there are alternatives to human fetal tissue. Using it, they say, encourages late-term abortions which produce more developed babies that are more lucrative when sold for research. That means abortion doctors receive incentives to use techniques that preserve babies and all their parts for science experiments.
Your Tax Dollars, 'Fresh' Late-term Aborted Babies & Humanized Mice https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/august/your-tax-dollars-fresh-late-term-aborted-babies-and-humanized-mice [...] the federal government is driving a research industry in this country, it's not private business, it's the federal government, that demands organs taken from late-term babies that the country would demand that it be stopped," he also told CBN News. [...] "What's really outrageous about this is that the government is creating a demand for fresh tissue that has to be removed immediately after an abortion from a late-term aborted baby," he told CBN News. [...] "Because this research needs babies that are past that point that have developed bigger livers and thymus, quite frankly; if you outlaw abortion at the time of the heartbeat, this research stops because they will not have those abortions where they can take a baby that's just been aborted and remove its liver and thymus and bone marrow and immediately ship it off to one of these federally funded researchers.
NIH fetal experimentation funding sponsors infanticide https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/nih-fetal-experimentation-funding-sponsors-infanticide The FDA’s cGMP guidelines require sterile tissue transplantation products, which means the abortion must leave the fetus intact, with internal organs unexposed to external pathogens. [...] Immediacy was key: “The logistics of the transfer of the fetus to the cell isolation facility required no more than 1 hour, and our protocol excluded the use of cells that were isolated more than 6 hours prior to transplant.” [...] Advanced Bioscience Resources, the decades-long Planned Parenthood business partner and frequent government supplier of aborted baby parts, also provides cGMP-quality tissue procurement, for fees of up to $7,000 per organ. [...] Gerlach’s fetal liver experiments with UPMC have received at least $2 million in grant money from the NIH since 2011, and his work’s exploitation of born-alive infants raises serious questions about whether HHS violated its own authorizing statutes in previous administrations. The same federal law that permits HHS to fund fetal tissue research forbids any involvement in live fetal experimentation except to save the life of the baby.
Efficient human fetal liver cell isolation protocol based on vascular perfusion for liver cell–based therapy and case report on cell transplantation, https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lt.22322 [...] We report a 5‐step method in which a portal vein in situ perfusion technique is used for tissue from the late second trimester. This method results in the high viabilities known for adult liver vascular perfusion, addresses the low cell yields of conventional digestion methods, and reduces the exposure of the tissue to collagenase 4‐fold. We used donated tissue from gestational weeks 18 to 22, which yielded 1.8 ± 0.7 × 109 cells with an average viability of 78%.[...]
Why are we launching a direct-action campaign at UC San Francisco?
$13,799,501 Federal Contract Requires UC San Francisco to Obtain Aborted-Baby Parts to Humanize Mice https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/13799501-federal-contract-requires-uc-san-francisco-obtain-aborted A federal contract that the National Institutes of Health signed with the University of California at San Francisco requires UCSF to obtain body parts from unborn babies to make at least two types of “humanized mice,” according to “the statement of work” included in the contract solicitation published by NIH.
UCSF Admits to Using Aborted Baby Body Parts to Research HIV https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/november/ucsf-admits-to-using-aborted-baby-body-parts-to-research-hiv The University of California, San Francisco is required to use aborted baby body parts for research, according to a contract they have signed with the National Institutes of Health. The body parts are used to make at least two types of "humanized" mice to research HIV treatment.
Use of Aborted Fetal Tissue: Questions and Answers, Charlotte Lozier Institute https://lozierinstitute.org/use-of-aborted-fetal-tissue-questions-answers/ Q6: A University of California San Francisco (UCSF) contract for baby body parts has gotten a lot of attention. What is that contract for? NIH has given a multi-year contract to UCSF for production of a type of humanized mouse that contains a human immune system, to study HIV infection and potential HIV drugs. The total amount of this contract, through December 5, 2020, is $13,799,501; NIH has so far paid over $10 million. The project uses aborted baby livers, thymus, bone marrow, and intestinal tissue, and the contract calls for use of organs from at least 24 aborted “donors” per year. In fact, NIH requires the use of aborted fetal organs in this contract. NIH renewed the contract for 90 days in December 2018, and again in March 2019. It is up for possible renewal in June, just days away.
Trainer: Dismemberment abortions cause ‘greater emotional burden’ for abortionists, https://www.liveaction.org/news/dismemberment-abortions-emotional-burden/ An abortion training module published by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) details reasons a woman might select one of two gruesome later abortion procedures, the D&E (Dilation and Evacuation) dismemberment abortion method and the Induction abortion method. UCSF trains abortion providers and also provides later abortions at its Women’s Option Center.
Replication of CMV in the gut of HIV-infected individuals and epithelial barrier dysfunction (study out of UCSF, Cheryl Stoddart, principal investigator) https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006202#sec008 (p. 24) "[...] Fetal gut tissues (18–24 gestational weeks) were obtained from women with normal pregnancies before elective termination for nonmedical reasons with informed consent according to local, state, and federal regulations. Single intact segments of the human fetal intestine were transplanted subcutaneously on the back of 6–8-week-old male C.B17 scid mice [...]"
Cheryl Stoddart, PHD https://medicine.ucsf.edu/people/cheryl-stoddart My research has focused on the use of the SCID-hu Thy/Liv mouse model for preclinical evaluation of antiviral compounds and immunomodulating agents. The Thy/Liv model is constructed by implantation of organs supportive of human multilineage hematopoiesis and T-cell development (e.g., fetal liver and thymus) into the immunodeficient C.B-17 scid/scid mouse. Since 2000, I have been the Principal Investigator for a sole-sourced contract from NIH/NIAID, Tissue-Based Small Animal Model for HIV Drug Discovery funded to carry out these drug evaluations.
Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning https://intranet.bixbycenter.ucsf.edu/training/training/kenneth_j_ryan_training.html The Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning is a national program coordinated from the Bixby Center at the University of California, San Francisco. The program was founded in 1999 with the goal of formally integrating and enhancing family planning training for residents in obstetrics and gynecology. It strives to create academic settings for didactic education, clinical training, and research.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/ob-gyn/family-planning Our department’s global efforts in family planning include high-quality, patient-centered care, innovative medical education and rigorous and relevant research, all with the goal of ensuring that women have the ability to have children when and if they want them. We provide abortion and contraceptive care to women in California at San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF. We train nurses and physicians to provide the same high-quality care through local programs at San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF, in California through Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, in the US and Canada through the Kenneth J. Ryan Program in Abortion and Family Planning and the Fellowship in Family Planning, and globally through Innovating Education in Reproductive Health. The Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health is a thriving multidisciplinary group of researchers that does research in family planning, as well as reproductive infectious disease and safe motherhood.
UNM Pumps out Abortionists While the Overall Demand for Abortions Dwindle https://prolifewitness.org/unm-pumps-out-abortionists-while-the-overall-demand-for-abortions-dwindle/ Reuters reported today that even though the number of abortion clinics is dwindling, young medical doctors who want to kill babies by abortion is on the rise due to training programs like Medical Students for Choice and the Ryan Residency Training Program. The University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM) is listed as a Medical Students for Choice Chapter, and as we previously reported, UNM has been listed as a Ryan Residency Training site since 2011. Both programs contribute to the radical abortion agenda that is deeply entrenched at this public university. In 2011, the year that UNM adopted the training program, we reported, “The UNM Center for Reproductive Health is funded in part by a Ryan Residency Training grant. The Kenneth J. Ryan residency training program is a national, privately funded initiative based at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco.
Ryan Program Milestones https://ryanprogram.org/home-2/overview/ryan-program-milestones/
Transcript by the Center for Medical Progress, conversation with Deborah Nucatola, MD, Senior Director of Medical Services, PPFA, (pp. 40-41) https://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/PPFAtranscript072514_final.pdf (P. 5) [...] Buyer: Eleanor Drey was telling me that they do not use it (dig) at UCSF. [...] (P. 30) PP: With UCSF? I don’t know that their are many academic sites, at the volume and support at UCSF are kind of an anomaly and giant. Buyer: They are saturated though, that was the word Dr. Drey used. Their volume is saturated [...] (P. 40) So, like I said, if you want no dig, your options are UCSF and Planned Parenthood New York City, and that's it. And the reason they for Planned Parenthood New York City is because they all trained at UCSF. So, it’s like the UCSF school. They’re the only ones to my knowledge that don’t use dig before 20, 22 weeks. [...] I don’t know what the feasibility for that is for you but to me that, other than UCSF is the largest site of 20 to 22 week cases that have not gotten feticide, and I know because I’m a provider there too. So, I mean, I've practiced in both places. [...]
