The following is the text of a press release issued on Monday, March 6, 2000, by ABC News 20/20 in New York. ABC NEWS "20/20" INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED TRAFFICKING IN FETAL TISSUE FINDS COMPANIES THAT APPEAR TO BE PROFITING FROM SELLING HUMAN TISSUE FOR MEDICAL...
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Bill to Ban Use of Aborted Babies in Research Introduced in Nebraska Legislature
By Julie Schmit-Albin Nebraska RTL Executive Director Brought to a head by news that the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is conducting research that uses tissue harvested from aborted babies, a Nebraska legislator has introduced a bill that would ban the...
Fetal Tissue Research Using Aborted Babies Vigorously Opposed in Nebraska
By Dave Andrusko The ongoing ferocious debate over the use of brain tissue harvested from aborted babies grew even more intense when an Omaha, Nebraska, newspaper reported that the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) was not only using fetal tissue in...
Senate Narrowly Rejects Scrutiny of Baby Body Parts Industry, But House Adopts NRLC-Backed Call for Hearings Next Year
Congress has begun to take notice of the growing controversy over trafficking in baby body parts. In late October, during Senate consideration of the Partial- Birth Abortion Ban Act, pro-life Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) offered an amendment to require detailed reporting...
A New Growth Industry in Baby Body Parts
By Susan Wills Disposing of fetal remains poses a perennial challenge to abortion clinics. The last thing owners want is dumpsters filled with mangled bodies that look all too human. Solutions to the disposal dilemma run the gamut from the truly repulsive to ... the...
Harvesting Fetal Body Parts
By Kelly Patricia O'Meara [Reprinted with permission of Insight. Copyright 1999 New World Communication, Inc. All rights reserved.] The distribution of fetal body parts to scientists is a million-dollar industry. Researchers claim it's a necessary evil, but others...
Media Sugarcoats Fetal Tissue Transplant Failure
By Paul Ranalli, M.D. The hugely unimpressive outcome of a four-year-long clinical trial that injected brain tissue harvested from aborted babies in an attempt to treat Parkinson's disease was well hidden in recent reports in the mainstream media. Indeed, just reading...