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From: mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP (J.M.Berkley - Computing Services)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Aborted Babies: Medical Spare Parts
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 14:53:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 14:53:10 1986
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This is a quote from Scientific American, Aug 1986.  The article is
"Transplantation in the Central Nervous System" by Alan Fine:

	"For the moment transplantation in the central nervous system
	of human beings poses an ethical problem.....Nerve cells
	derived from certain tumors can be grown in culture and have
	been transplanted successfully into rodents.  The likeliest
	source of embryonic neurons for transplantation to human
	beings, however, appears to be tissue from aborted fetuses."

The article reports on experiments being done to repair damaged
nerves (including the spinal cord) of rats by using neural tissue
from rat fetuses.  The application in human beings is obvious: give
mobility back to people with spinal cord injuries.

The problem is that this makes human abortions into a
factory process: use aborted babies as spare parts.

How do people feel about this?

The aborted fetus is a human baby.  How can we allow a woman's body
to be used in this way?  Next thing they will be paying women to have
abortions just as they pay for blood donors in some states.

Mike Berkley
mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP