A California company is developing a new procedure, known as xenotransplantation, which involves the removal of organs from aborted babies and transplanting them into rats where they can be grown and later harvested for use in humans.
World Net Daily is reporting on the macabre new technique, which it dubs “Frankenscience”, that is being developed at a California biotechnology company named Ganogen. Founder Eugene Gu says his firm has taken the kidneys from human fetuses and implanted them into rats that were bred without immune systems, effectively disabling their ability to reject the organs. The rats then serve as a kind of incubator for the organs, allowing them to grow to full size for use in conventional organ transplants.
“This technology is applicable not just to the kidney, but to every kind of organ in the body,” Gu told Natural News.
The publication, which called the process “the latest exhibition of depraved quasi-science,” says that if the process is proven successful on a larger scale, “it forebodes a future in which aborted human babies become a commercial commodity for companies to capitalize on artificial organ development.”
We all know where this will lead – to further stocking the coffers of abortion clinics worldwide who will now be able to make money off both the mothers and the innocent victims they destroy through abortion.
Of course, Ganogen glosses over the most appalling part of their work in promotional videos in which say they use only “discarded human organs” in the procedure.
Understandably, ethical questions are being raised from all quarters, both secular and pro-life.
For instance, CBS News reported on the project earlier this year, citing bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the Langone Medical Center in New York who said there’s no debate about the procedure because it won’t go anywhere.
“American society is morally uncomfortable enough about abortion that growing organs from fetal remains will never be accepted, and will be banned in state after state,” Caplan said.
Jim Sedlak, spokesman for the American Life League, the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the U.S., calls the program “totally immoral” and “another outlandish use of aborted babies to produce results that humans think are good.”
“We are totally opposed to any use of aborted cells from human beings to grow organs or for any other purpose,” he said. “Someone died in order for these organs to be grown.”
For those who think they might accept one of these organs if it means extending their life, pro-life activist Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League asks, “Is it worth it to extend your life with an aborted baby’s heart or kidneys?”
He adds: “It’s horrifying to think that a company would exploit the deaths of these children in this way, or that sick people would be willing to purchase more years of life at such a moral cost.”
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