A Most Unsavory Catalog

by Ken Hamblin                                                                                            Vol. XII, No. 9, October 1999

When the circus made its traditional stop in Denver recently, the usual array of activists for the legal and social rights of animals predictably turned out to wring their good-natured hands over the fact that animals are obliged to perform for the pleasure of man. Their whiny proclamations of outrage were heard on one talk show after another. But I've come to see their agitation as silly, or at least definitely low on the totem-pole of importance, in light of a real outrage — the buying and selling of body parts collected from the remains of aborted infants.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The selling of human body parts from aborted babies sounds like a make-believe story hot from the computer keyboard of some twisted sister banging out a B-movie horror flick. But it's all too real, an ugly economic fact of life that I learned about not long ago.

Mark Crutcher, a recent guest on my syndicated talk-radio show, is the president of Life Dynamics Inc. in Denton, Texas. His company is a pro-life organization that provides litigation support to personal-injury attorneys on behalf of women who have been killed or injured while having abortions.

But Life Dynamics' greatest accomplishment may be its success in infiltrating the American abortion industry and revealing activities generally unknown to the average citizen.

Its most recent, and most chilling, discovery is that the abortion industry is now selling dead babies from the abortions it performs to two different organizations that resell the corpses to researchers, pharmaceutical companies and universities.

Life Dynamics has documented the unsavory facts in ``Documentation Subject: Fetal Tissue Harvesting/Marketing,'' a report on the subject which says, in part:

“Fetal-tissue wholesalers are companies which place employees in abortion clinics to harvest tissue, limbs, organs etc. from aborted babies ...

“Although it is against federal law to sell human tissue or body parts,'' the report adds, “these organizations have devised a system to circumvent this restriction.

“Technically, all fetal material they harvest is ‘donated' to them by the clinics. However, they do pay a ‘site fee' to the clinics for the right to access the tissue.''

The Life Dynamics report even provides a list of the going prices for selected body parts:

— Livers, up to 8 weeks old, $150, 30-percent discount if significantly fragmented.

— Brains, up to 8 weeks old, $999, 30-percent discount if significantly fragmented.

— Gonads, $550.

— Spinal cord, $325.

I asked Crutcher how it was possible to create so apparently thriving a business dealing in the marketing of so dubious a product as deceased baby parts.

“The 40 million babies killed by abortions last year (worldwide) has resulted in a cheapening of all human life,'' he replied, “not just for the unborn child.''

As to what possible use these baby parts might have, Crutcher readily acknowledged that they were valuable in medical research into such tragic human afflictions as Parkinson's disease, blindness and even AIDS.

He isn't at odds with legitimate medical research, Crutcher added. He simply feels that we cannot, as a society, say that it's unimportant how research tissue is acquired. It's one thing to take tissue from someone who died a natural death or perished in a motorcar crash or other accident, but quite another to harvest tissue from the bodies of children who have been deliberately killed and then sell it for profit.

Thanks to Life Dynamics, it cannot be disputed that abortion in the United States has become a profitable business for tissue retailers such as the Anatomic Gift Foundation of White Oak, GA, with branches in Laurel, MD, Phoenix and Aurora, CO.

Personally, I think it's an especially sad state of affairs when people are quick to wring their hands over the plight of circus animals while turning a blind eye to the sale of human tissue.

Those who would defend the merchandising of brains, livers and gonads in the name of humanitarian scientific research are entitled to their point of view. But if this research is indeed so humanitarian, why not donate those precious little body parts in the name of compassion?

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c.1999 Ken Hamblin