THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE HUMAN

Foetal tissue for overseas sale (TONY WALL, 10jun03, Australian Telegraph)

A SYDNEY company is involved in a secret plan to collect tissue from aborted babies and export it for medical experiments.

The sensitive proposal, to harvest some of the 90,000 foetuses aborted in Australia each year has been condemned by pro-life groups for fostering an international trade in human body parts.

The Daily Telegraph has established that a Dutch bio-tech company, Crucell, working through a Sydney contract research organisation, Parexel International, has applied to the ethics committee of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide for access to foetal material.

It is believed to be the first proposed commercial collection of foetuses in Australia, but those behind the project were hoping to carry it out without the public knowing.

The tissue would be sent to Crucell's laboratories in the Netherlands and used to grow cell lines for research into vaccines for infectious diseases such as HIV and ebola.

The abortion doctors who collect the tissue stand to make money out of the project - they would be paid an "hourly rate" for their time.

Being paid an hourly rate seems appropriate for such whoring. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 11, 2003 5:59 PM