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Scientists Push Using Aborted Babies' Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization
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MADRID, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction yesterday, Israeli scientists put forward the notion of using ova from aborted baby girls for fertility treatments. Tal Biron-Shental, a gynaecologist from Meir Hospital-Sapir Medical Centre in Kfar Saba, announced that he and his team extracted ovarian tissue from seven aborted baby girls aged 22 to 33 weeks. The scientists were able to keep the tissue alive long enough for follicles to develop - one stage in the development of mature ovaries.
Experiments with mice have demonstrated that ova from aborted foetuses (mice) have been able to be artificially matured and fertilized to produce offspring. Some fertility scientists are eager to conduct the research with humans noting the shortage of embryos would be solved since human baby girls even prior to birth have, in immature form, their full complement of ova already in place.
Dr. Roger Gosden, a controversial researcher who pushed for such research in Britain in the early 1990s, moved to Canada after his research was condemned in the UK Parliament. British MP Dame Jill Knight, who was instrumental in criminalizing Gosden's research, commented that it was "the stuff of nightmares," and noted that children born of his intended procedures would be told that they had come "from a dead mother, a mother ... that was never actually born at all."
After his research was made illegal in Britain, Gosden moved from Leeds University to McGill University in Quebec Canada. At his installation he was greeted by pro-lifers reminding him of the unethical nature of his research by carrying signs saying "Try telling a child: 'Your mother was a dead baby'". After the Quebec government announced a ban on research which destroyed human embryos, Gosden moved to Virginia. Gosden left for the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, the first firm to admit to creating human beings explicitly for experimentation - experimentation that will lead to the deaths of those human beings.
See related LifeSite coverage:
BRITAIN TO CANADA TO USA: FERTILITY SCIENTIST IN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM FROM http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/feb/02021103.html
See the UPI coverage from the Washington Times:
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030630-031719-3074r.htm
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