DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Organs of babies aborted at UCSF transplanted into rodents

Protesters outside Zuckerberg Hospital, letter to Alex Azar

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been involved in numerous experiments involving the implantation of organs from second-trimester babies into animals. (Photo from inquisitr.com)

Life Legal Defense Foundation is representing pro-life advocates led by the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust who were arrested last week at a California abortion facility. The pro-lifers were engaged in a peaceful protest outside Zuckerberg Hospital at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), which performs abortions and then provides the remains of the aborted babies to UCSF’s research labs. The hospital bears the name of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has come under fire for suppressing and censoring pro-life speech.

UCSF is known for its gruesome experimentation with fully developed pre-born babies.

The pro-lifers engaged in the demonstration to raise awareness about human subject experimentation at UCSF, including bizarre procedures in which fetal intestines and reproductive tracts were transplanted into laboratory rodents.

As Life Legal learned of similar inhumane experimentation done around the country, we signed onto a letter urging HHS Secretary Alex Azar to end the government’s use of aborted human babies for research. We recently discovered that White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci has been involved in numerous experiments involving the implantation of organs from second-trimester babies into animals.

This type of research is profoundly unethical and should be illegal. Human subject research requires meaningful consent—how can a woman who has no interest in protecting the life of her unborn child give valid permission for that child to be dissected?

“We are appalled that San Francisco law enforcement would arrest individuals who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights on a public sidewalk,” said Life Legal Senior Staff Counsel Allison Aranda. “These arrests are a gross miscarriage of justice and we will fight to ensure that our clients can continue to disseminate information that is in the public interest.”

Life Legal is in contact with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and we are working to ensure that any charges filed against those engaged in constitutionally protected speech are dismissed.

The above comes from a Nov. 23 email sent by the Life Legal Defense Foundation.

LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”