In their own words . .
.
 "The skin of a baby goes for
$100, baby ears are $75, a spinal column is $150, eyes are $75 (one
is 40% less); a company in Florida specializes only in baby heads."
This was the testimony of Mark Crutcher during a recent interview on
WTZY radio (880AM) in Asheville N.C. Crutcher is head of Life
Dynamics, a company in Denton, Texas founded in 1992. He has spent
the past several years investigating a wholesale parts warehouse
network for fetal body parts that are dissected and then shipped all
over the United States.
"Tell us about Kelly," asks Ken
Bagwell, the host of the show. "Well, Kelly is the person who came
to us originally. She was a technician working for one of the
wholesalers in a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic harvesting the
baby body parts. She was starting to have some real moral problems;
she was starting to have nightmares and to get depressed by what she
was seeing. One of the things she was starting to see were babies
who were taken out alive and who were beginning to have parts taken
out of them while they were still living. One day a doctor walked
into the lab and set a metal bucket at the foot of the dissection
table. 'I got you some really good specimens - twins. Twin little
boys" Kelly looked down and saw a pair of perfectly formed 26-28
week-old babies moving, gurgling, and struggling to breathe.
'Something is not right about this,' she exclaimed. 'They are still
alive. I can't do this. That stuff isn't in my contract.' She left
the room. A little while later the doctor called her back into the
room and said, 'O.K., now get what you need.'
She went
back in and saw that the bucket had been filled with water and that
the twins had been drowned. That was kind of the straw that broke
the camel's back for her. She knew, by the way, that babies at that
age if given proper treatment survive in excess of half the time. So
she contacted another organization that referred her to us. That's
what started us down this horrendous trail."
|
In September, 1993, Brenda Pratt
Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years or experience,
was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic.
Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she
didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was
wrong.
This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"
I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a
partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant.
The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound
screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms,
everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving.
His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his
feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them
into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked
out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he
thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors
up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole
and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely
limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted
by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect,
angelic face I have ever seen." |
Kelly was working at that time for a Maryland company called the
Anatomic Gift Foundation. She is in the May issue of "Life Talk"
video magazine - the first of a series of videos released by Life
Dynamics, Inc. Life Dynamics admits to having other people working
undercover in abortion clinics. It cannot reveal all its sources due
to the dangerous nature of the work they are doing.
"We
have a lot of proof that these things are factual, and we have made
available a lot of hard information. We have a 54 page booklet that
outlines how the wholesalers circumvent the laws, includes numerous
orders for chopped up baby bodies, and also provides price lists.
The way this particular system works is as follows: these
wholesalers train people as "technicians" to chop up baby bodies,
and then they go to an abortion mill and say 'look, we want to put
our technician in here to harvest parts from these babies. We know
it is illegal to buy and sell these parts. But what we will do is to
pay you a 'site' fee for letting us put our techs in here. Then when
he or she harvests these parts - we will send faxes each morning of
the parts we want, such as 20 pairs of eyes, or 10 spinal columns,
or 16 livers - they will be shipped out each day and you will have
'donated' those parts. Your fee will come to you as a 'site'
fee.
'Once we have the parts, we then' donate' them to the
university -such as the University of North Carolina - or to a
government agency or pharmaceutical company and we then charge them
a 'retrieval fee' or a 'shipping fee.' As long as I make my
'shipping' or 'retrieval' fee higher than my 'site' fee, I am in
good shape. It doesn't violate the 'letter' of the law.
"Now, what you need to remember is that when an order is faxed to
the technician, the baby whose body is to be chopped up to fill an
order is still alive. The faxes arrive early in the morning. Often
the mom is sitting out in the waiting room, and the technician can
even look out through the window and see the pregnant moms waiting
just before their baby is to be killed to fill the orders. In
addition, when a baby is chopped up, that baby might help fill
several different orders from different places. As a result, the
baby who was alive and kicking in the morning might end up chopped
up into several different pieces on several different research
tables all over the country by the end of the afternoon.
"Now
if you piece out all the parts and fill eight or ten different
orders, the dollar income for a 20 to 22 week old baby could run
$1,500 to $2,000 for the abortion plus $3,000 to $4,000 for the
parts for a total of $5,000 or $6,000.
It's big money. (Click here to see a copy of an actual price
list)
"In my opinion, this is a completely predictable
result of legal abortion. Let me put it to you this way. If there is
nothing wrong with abortion and if abortion is OK morally, then what
is wrong with any of this? If an unborn child is not a human being
nor deserving of protection, then what is wrong with
this?
I think it is hypocritical for some of the people
who I have spoken to to say 'look, I'm pro-choice; I'm not a
radical, but this horrifies me. I'm very uncomfortable with this.'
That person is not facing the issue squarely. Fundamentally, if
there is nothing wrong with abortion, then there is nothing wrong
with this. Once you devalue life to where it has no value, which is
what you really say when you say you are pro-choice, then this is
the logical result. Probably 99% of all abortions occur simply
because the baby is 'not wanted' or is 'not needed,'" Crutcher
stated.
"Patricia Ireland, on a recent TV interview, cleverly
responded to a question regarding whether or not a culprit who takes
the life of a pregnant woman should be charged with taking two lives
in the following manner. She stated that that would depend on
whether or not that child was 'wanted.' Should life be determined by
'wantedness'? To suggest that someone's life has value or not should
be based upon whether or not someone else wants them is outrageous.
And yet it happens all the time; four or five thousand abortions
occur every day."
In the radio interview, Crutcher says to
just "look at the data in the packets of information we
have."
"A sample from a scientist studying the
'Biochemical Characterization of human type X Collagen,' requests
'Whole intact leg, include entire hip joint, 22-24 weeks gest.' The
technician is told to 'dissect by cutting through symphasis pubis
and to include whole Illium (hip joint).' They also tell you that it
is to be removed from the baby within 10 minutes of its death. Now,
a physician I spoke with told me there is no way to do a
conventional abortion, which means you cause a fetal demise inside
the uterus of the woman, and then get the baby out and then get it
chopped up in 10 minutes. This means the baby had to be brought out
still alive in order to do this procedure and have it on dry ice in
10 minutes following death. This confirms again what Kelly had been
telling us."
|
From the "Availability of human fetal
tissue - NIH guide"
Volume 23, Number 10, March 11,
1994
"Human embryonic and fetal tissues are
available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at
the University of Washington. The laboratory, which is
supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply
tissue from normal of abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired
gestational ages between 40 days and term. Specimens are
obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically
identified, staged and immediately processed according to the
requirements of individual investigators. Presently,
processing methods include immediate fixation, snap fixation,
snap freezing in liquid nitrogen, and placement in balanced
salt solutions or media designated and/or supplied by
investigators. Specimens are shipped by overnight express,
arriving the day following procurement. The laboratory can
also supply serial sections of human embryos that have been
preserved in methyl Carnoy's fixative, embedded in paraffin
and sectioned at 5 microns. |
"The clinic that Kelly worked at also performed 'partial birth'
abortions," Crutcher continued. " This procedure is basically a
'breached' birth. The doctor reaches in and grabs hold of the baby's
leg with tongs, turns him or her around, and pulls the entire baby,
except for the head, feet-first and face down out of the mother.
Then he punctures the base of the skull with scissors, inserts a
cannula to suck out the brain, and slides the head out. It is a
three day long procedure which requires that the woman be inserted
with laminaria, seaweed cervix dilators, ahead of
time."
"Kelly said that routinely the women would go
into labor before their final surgery. 'They were coming out alive,'
she said. There would be three or four live births in a normal
two-week time span. 'The doctor would either break the neck or take
a pair of tongs and basically beat the fetus until it was
dead.'"
According to McGovern's report the evidence for the
demand can be corroborated in other places besides Life Dynamics.
"The National Institutes for Health operates a Laboratory for
Embryology at the University of Washington in Seattle that runs a
24-hour collection service at abortion clinics. An advertisement in
the March, 1994 NIH Guide still appears on the Internet, offering to
'supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of
desired gestational ages between 40 days and term. Specimens are
obtained within minutes of passage . . . and immediately processed
according to the requirements of individual investigators . . .
Specimens are shipped by overnight express.'"
Mark Crutcher
affirmed in the WYZY interview that he is now fully convinced that
the big money involved in research using intact late-term baby
organs is the hidden truth behind the partial-birth abortion
controversy. "One of the things that always puzzled me was why there
was such a big fight by pro-aborts to keep partial birth abortion?
Why fight for this? It's a dangerous procedure. A ban on it wouldn't
mean babies wouldn't be killed; it would just mean that they
wouldn't be killed with that method. They could still be killed with
D&E's, or saline or urea or other late term abortion procedures.
It was always a mystery until we got into this "fetal tissue' thing.
What you find is that partial birth abortion came on the scene about
the same moment that there became a market for baby body
parts.
"If you look at all the abortion procedures, there is
really only one procedure that leaves you with a significant amount
of tissue at the end that you can sell, and that is partial birth
abortion. This is plain and simple about maximizing profit. First,
you sell the mother an abortion. Then you turn around and sell the
dead baby that you pull out of her. But you need to take it out
whole in order to really have something good to sell.
"It,
partial birth abortion, makes no sense from a medical standpoint. I
challenge any OBGYN to come in and tell me otherwise - that you
would purposely create a breached delivery, which is what a partial
birth abortion is when they turn the baby around and have his or her
feet come out first. There is no reason to ever do that except to
have intact whole baby parts to sell.
| On January
22,1993, President Clinton issued a directive to the Secretary
of Health and Human Services ending a five-year moratorium on
Federal funding of therapeutic transplantation research that
uses human fetal tissue derived from induced abortions.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala
notified the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the
President's action, and then formally revoked the moratorium
on February 1, 1993. |
"It has nothing whatsoever to do with the woman's right to choose
or with protecting the sanctity of the right to have an abortion. It
has everything to do with protecting the sanctity of the
abortionist's wallet. 'Fetal tissue marketing' is the father of the
partial birth abortion. Now, I know that some organizations claim
that partial birth abortions are done on severely deformed babies or
those that have abnormalities. That is a bald-faced lie. First, if
you look at the order book, the vast majority of the orders specify
'no abnormality.' Secondly, let's look at what is beginning to
happen elsewhere.
"If you have been following the situation
at Christ Hospital in Chicago, Ill or at the hospital in Calgary in
Canada and the ones in Ohio, you now have hospitals doing what they
call 'genetic terminations.' This is where they are doing an
abortion by simply inducing the woman who then gives birth, and the
hospital gives orders so that the baby cannot receive any treatment.
It is given what they nicely call 'comfort care.' They wrap it up in
a blanket and put it in a hallway closet or someplace else like that
until it dies.
"You have a woman called Jill Stanick who is a
nurse in the labor unit and delivery section of Christ Hospital in
Chicago who is stating that this is going on. Christ Hospital is not
denying it. As a matter of fact they and other Chicago hospitals are
saying they are doing it. In Columbus, Ohio a nurse admitted she
held a baby girl for 6 hours until it died.
"This is the next
logical progression. Partial birth abortion gives you exponentially
more tissue to sell than a D&E or a saline does. These 'live
abortions,' so called 'genetic terminations,' give you a complete
intact baby who just suffocated or died from 'natural' causes or
whatever, and now you have a whole, complete baby that can be
chopped up and sold.
"A 'genetic termination' was originally
made only if three doctors stated that a baby could not survive
outside the mother's womb; but once you start down that trail, the
next step is that this baby 'probably' won't survive. After that we
see another step that happened recently in Canada whereby a woman
had an abortion that evidently failed, and the woman found out she
was 20 weeks pregnant, so they went back in and did a 'genetic
termination' on a perfectly healthy baby.
"In addition to
this we have a woman who came forward and told us that
pharmaceutical companies are working with OBGYNs and paying them -
when they have a girl who is eight weeks pregnant and wants to abort
- to tell her to come back at 20 or more weeks along and that they
will pay for her abortion so that she gets it for free. In addition,
they will give her x dollars for her expenses because they want this
later term tissue.
"Now it's not far from there to 'baby farms.' Let's say you have a
woman who says 'I need some extra cash,' and there are people
willing to pay her $2,000 for a 'fetus,' why not get pregnant and
make a little money? However, once again, I would like to make the
point that if there is nothing wrong with abortion, what really is
wrong with all of this?
"But can we really look at killing
and chopping up innocent babies one minute and then turn around in
the next breath and say 'What time do the Cowboys play,' without
having it turn us into a warped bunch of human beings? What is going
on needs to be looked at for what it is. We can't run around with
our heads in the sand. Call me whatever you want, but I honestly
believe that God has to be running out of patience with us."
| A free package of
information as well as a video can be obtained from Life
Dynamics by calling 1-800-401-6494. Their web site address is
http://ww.ldi.org Marc Crutcher can be reached at
1-940-380-8800. The entire Roe vs Wade decision can be found
at
http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Roe/index.html |
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