Rep. Bucshon: Aborted Baby Parts Trafficking Probe Not Halting ‘Vital Medical Research’

By Lauretta Brown

Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), a cardiac surgeon, countered claims Thursday that the work of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives was halting “vital medical research.”  The House debated providing additional funding to the panel, which is looking into the ethics of the medical practices of abortion service providers and the business practices of the procurement organizations who sell baby body parts.   Bucshon pointed out that “human fetal tissue research represents only a tiny fraction of the overall scientific enterprise. In fact, only 0.2 percent used human fetal tissue.”........

while it is commonly claimed that fetal tissue was used to produce the polio vaccine, this is largely false. The polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955 using a monkey cell line, and is still produced using monkey cells.”    “Of the 75 vaccines in use today, not one was produced with fetal tissue. Furthermore, the NIH has not funded fetal tissue transplant grants for nearly 10 years,” Bucshon emphasized. “That should tell us something.”.....To Read More...