{"id":37131,"date":"2018-10-03T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=37131"},"modified":"2018-09-30T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T00:16:31","slug":"making-humanized-mice-with-aborted-fetal-tissue-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2018\/10\/making-humanized-mice-with-aborted-fetal-tissue-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Making “Humanized Mice” with Aborted Fetal Tissue–Cancelled!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Researchers have been combining human DNA with that of mice.\u00a0 The goal of generating these \u201cchimeras\u201d was to give the mice a human immune system.\u00a0 Doing this required the use of fetal tissue that comes from aborted children.\u00a0 This project was funded by tax dollars.\u00a0 Not as a grant to some mad scientist but as a project of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which contracted with a company that trafficks in this grisly trade.\u00a0 But now that pro-life groups have made this an issue, the Trump administration has cancelled the program!<\/p>\n

From Terence P. Jeffrey,\u00a0FDA Acquiring \u2018Fresh\u2019 Aborted Baby Parts to Make Mice With Human Immune Systems:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration signed a new contract on July 25 to acquire \u201cfresh\u201d human fetal tissue to transplant into \u201chumanized mice\u201d so that these mice will have a functioning \u201chuman immune system,\u201d according to information\u00a0published by the FDA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the General Services Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective is to acquire Tissue for Humanized Mice,\u201d said a June 13 FDA \u201cpresolicitation notice\u201d for the contract.<\/p>\n

The contractor, the notice said, would \u201cprovide the human fetal tissue needed to continue the ongoing research being led by FDA.<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh human tissues are required,\u201d said the notice, \u201cfor implantation into severely immune-compromised mice to create chimeric animals that have a human immune system.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0GSA\u2019s federal contract database<\/a>, Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), a non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, was awarded this $15,900 contract, which will run through July 25, 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u201cFetal tissue used in research is obtained from elective abortions,\u201d\u00a0says the Congressional Research Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Terence P. Jeffrey, Trump Administration Cancels FDA\u2019s Aborted Baby Parts Contract:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, put an end to the FDA-ABR contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a recent review of a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration to provide human fetal tissue to develop testing protocols, HHS was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements,\u201d HHS said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, that contract has been terminated, and HHS is now conducting an audit of all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue to ensure conformity with procurement and human fetal tissue research laws and regulations,\u201d HHS said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, HHS has initiated a comprehensive review of all research involving fetal tissue to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research, and to ensure the adequacy of procedures and oversight of this research in light of the serious regulatory, moral, and ethical considerations involved,\u201d said the HHS statement.<\/p>\n

The National Institutes of Health, a division of HHS, estimates it will spend $103 million this fiscal year on human fetal tissue research. Last year, it spent $98 million. The year before that, it spent $103 million.<\/p>\n

All these federal expenditures create a market for tissue taken from aborted babies.<\/p>\n

All should stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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HT:\u00a0 Mark L. Bannan<\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0 \u201cChimeric mice\u201d by Staff at NIMH\u2019s Transgenic Core Facility \u2013 http:\/\/intramural.nimh.nih.gov\/tgc\/photogallery.html, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=7721249<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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