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Do some products contain fetal parts? The short gruesome answer: Yes.

Today’s consumer products are not the soap and lampshades of recycled Nazi

concentration camp victims. The new utilitarian use of people is a

sophisticated enterprise, not visible to the human eye.

Fetal Parts in Daily Life

Perhaps you are a diligent supporter and promoter of pro-life legislation, only

vote for pro-life candidates, avoid entertainment from musicians and actors

who openly support Planned Parenthood. Regardless, you may unwittingly be

cooperating in aborted fetal cell research by purchasing products that use

aborted fetuses, either in the product itself or in its development.

One might take Enbrel (Amgen) to relieve Rheumatoid Arthritis. Your

husband was given Zoastavax (Merck), a Shingles vaccine, at his annual

physical. Your mother with diabetes and renal failure is prescribed Arensep

(Amgen). Your grandfather is given the blood product Repro (Eli Lilly) during

an angioplasty. The local school district requires that your grandchildren

receive the MMRII (the Merck Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine). Your

daughter and son use coffee creamers and eat soup with artificial flavor

enhancers (Senomyx/Firmenich) tested on artificial taste buds engineered

from aborted fetal cells.

Because of the vagary of FDA labeling, unless you are proficient at reading

patents and pharmaceutical inserts you wouldn’t know aborted fetal parts

were there without someone to tell you.

Luckily, that someone is the watchdog group Children of God for Life (COG),

a pro-life public citizen group which tracks the use of aborted fetal parts.

Under the leadership of Executive Director Debi Vinnedge, COG publishes

a downloadable list of products that use aborted fetuses currently available in

the U.S.

Products That Use Aborted Fetuses

Products related to fetal material can be broken down into roughly 3

categories: artificial flavors, cosmetics, and medicines/vaccines.

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1. Food and Drink

To be clear, food and beverages do not contain any aborted fetal material;

however, they may be tastier because of it. How is that?

The American biotech company Senomyx has

developed chemical additives that can enhance

flavor and smell. To do this, they had to produce

an army of never-tiring taste testers–that is, flavor

receptors engineered from human embryonic

kidney cells (HEK 293, fetal cell line popular in

pharmaceutical research).

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These artificial taste

buds can tell product developers which products

the public will crave. The goal is to do a taste bud

“sleight of hand,” creating low-sugar and low-

sodium products that taste sweet or salty while

actually using less sugar or sodium in the product.

Does your Nestle Coffee-mate Pumpkin Spice

refrigerated creamer taste more like autumn?

Does your Maggi bouillon taste just like chicken?

Thank Senomyx.

The laboratory-created artificial enhancers do not

have to be tested at length by the FDA because the

Senomyx chemical “flavor compounds are used in

proportions less than one part per million” and can be classified as artificial

flavors.

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In 2005, Senomyx had contracts to develop products for Kraft Foods, Nestle,

Campbell Soup and Coca-Cola.

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However, when it was discovered in 2011

that PepsiCo was using Senomyx to develop a reduced sugar beverage, a

boycott ensued that caused Kraft-Cadbury Adams LLC and Campbell Soup

cancelled their contracts with Senomyx. In a 2012 letter to Children of God

for Life, PepsiCo stated, “Senomyx does not use HEK cells or any other

tissues or cell lines derived from human embryos or fetuses for research

performed on behalf of PepsiCo.”

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To that effect, PepsiCo is working with

Senomyx on two products developed with Sweetmyx 617, a new Senomyx

sweet taste modifier.

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In November 2018, the Swiss company Firmenich acquired Senomyx, Inc.

Firmenich describes itself as “a global leader in taste innovation and expert in

sweet, cooling and bitter solutions.”

2. Cosmetics

The fountain of youth…is babies.

Commercially, it’s known as Processed Skin Proteins (PSP), developed at the

University of Lausanne to heal burns and wounds by regenerating

traumatized skin. The fetal skin cell line was taken from an electively aborted

baby whose body was donated to the University.

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Neocutis, a San Francisco-based firm, uses PSP in some of their anti-aging

skin products. Their website claims the trademarked PSP “harnesses the

power of Human Growth Factors, Interleukins and other Cytokines, to help

deliver state-of-the-art skin revitalization.”

3. Vaccines and Medicine

The Vaccine Card at the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI)

website lists over 21 vaccines and medical products that contain aborted fetal

cell lines. The Card is updated yearly, and also lists ethical vaccine

alternatives when there are any.

SCPI is a biomedical research organization headed by Theresa Deisher, who

has a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford and 23 patents

in the field to her name. Dr. Deisher, the first person to identify and patent

stem cells from the adult heart, has an insiders understanding of genetic

engineering having worked in the industry leaders such as Amgen, Genetech,

and Repligen.

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Among other things SCPI “promotes awareness about the widespread use of

fetal human material in drug discovery, development and

commercialization.”

No vaccine product is completely pure: “You will find contaminating DNA

and cellular debris from the production cell in your final product. When we

switch from using animal cells to using human cells we now have human

DNA in our vaccines and our drugs.”

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The problem is three-fold. Aborted fetal parts are used for experiments,

aborted fetal cell lines are used, and fetal cellular DNA debris are in vaccines

and medicines.

But it is not just human DNA that is left over, so are some of the chemical

stabilizers that keep the product from degrading, as well as, stimulants to rev

up the immune system.

“Vaccines are a virus that have been put into a vial, in a liquid, which is the buffer, which we call

excipients, and companies have put in stabilizers so that the virus won’t degrade and other things

that kind of rev up your immune system so that they can use lower amounts of the virus and have a

greater profit margin. And immune stimulants are things like aluminum and thimerosal, they

are stabilizers but they rev up the immunes system, so all of these things are in the final product,

including contaminates from the cell lines that are used to manufacture the vaccines.”

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Why aren’t the contaminates removed? Because nobody wants a pediatric

vaccine that costs a few thousand dollars.

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In finance, the yield is inversely related to the price. In chemistry, the yield is

inversely related to purity. The price of inexpensive mass-produced vaccines

is that the medical establishment accepts that the vaccines contain a high

amount of fetal contaminates.

“[I]f they have purified out the containments from the cell lines, the yield would be so low that they

wouldn’t make any money, or no one would pay a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars for a

vaccine. And so because of that case remnants from the cell lines, in that case, fetal cell lines are in

the final product. And they are at actually very high levels. And in the chicken pox, the fetal

DNA contaminates are present at twice the levels of the active ingredient which is Varicella

DNA.”

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The Fetal Tissue Marketplace

Much research is currently being done with fetal cells.

We know this because, for one, there’s a market for fetal parts. In a series of

undercover videos, David Daleiden of The Center for Medical

Progress exposed Planned Parenthood abortion clinics selling fetal parts to

investigators posing as and medical researchers. And for his efforts his office

was raided in 2016 by then California Attorney General Kamala Harris, now a

Senator and 2020 Presidential Candidate Harris.

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Daleiden is currently

being pursued in court by current California Attorney General, and former

Democrat California Congressman, Xavier Becerra.

We already knew this was happening from the testimony of scientists

themselves. On January 11, 2018, professor emeritus Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the

lead developer of the Rubella vaccine for the Wistar Institute (Philadelphia)

in the 1960s, was deposed as an expert witness on Vaccinology in a Michigan

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child custody case.

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Dr. Plotkin was asked how many aborted fetuses he

has used in his experiments:

QUESTION: So in your, in all of your work related to vaccines throughout your whole career,

you’ve only ever worked with two fetuses?

PLOTKIN: In terms of making vaccines, yes.

But after being presented with Exhibit 41 (Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and

Medicine), the two fetuses involved in his experiment grows exponentially to 76 aborted fetuses.

QUESTION: So this study involved 74 fetuses, correct?

PLOTKIN: Seventy-six.

QUESTION: And these fetuses were all three months or older when aborted, correct? PLOTKIN: Yes.

A true enough response. Fetal cells, for that matter all normal cells, have a

finite capacity to replicate following the principle of cellular aging. The

vaccine trail needed many cell lines in order to achieve its end.

An interesting aside, during questioning Dr. Plotkin answered affirmatively

that some of his subjects for experimental vaccine trials had been children of

“mothers in prison,” the mentally ill, and “individuals under colonial rule”

[Belgian Congo].

Dr. Theresa Deisher first became aware of the introduction of fresh aborted

fetal material in drug discovery in 1996.

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Fresh fetal parts are a time-saver

compared to the days spent washing and prepping animal tissue, like monkey

hearts, for laboratory experiments. While it is not legal to sell aborted fetal

tissue, it is still available in catalogues and comes with high prices for

shipping and handling.

A Better Option

According to Dr. David A. Prentice Vice, President of the Charlotte Lozier

Institute and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Genetics at the John Paul II

Institute, adult stem cells are the benchmark for research that has led to

actual cures for patients.

“The superiority of adult stem cells in the clinic and the mounting evidence supporting their

effectiveness in regeneration and repair make adult stem cells the gold standard of stem cells for

patients.”

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Then why are we still using embryonic cell lines when adult stem cells have

become the Gold Standard? There seems to be little excuse for products that

use aborted fetuses.

U.S. Policy on Products That Use Aborted Fetuses

President Bill Clinton

On the 20th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 1993, President Clinton signed

five abortion-related memorandums which included the reversal of the

George H. W. Bush era moratorium on creating new fetal tissue for research,

claiming at the time that, “This moratorium has significantly hampered the

development of possible treatments for individuals afflicted with serious

diseases and disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease,

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diabetes and leukemia.”

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While a bio-ethics debate transfixed the

country in 2006 as to whether the United

States would allow the use of new aborted

fetal stem cells in research, [see White

House Fact Sheet on Stem Cell Research

Policy], the medical research community

had already decided that the future lay

with human-animal hybrids and new

aborted fetal cell lines. According to a

statement submitted to the President’s

Bioethics Council:

“Aborted human DNA in our vaccines is not the end, it

is only the beginning, as the creation of human-animal

hybrids demonstrates. A new aborted fetal cell line has

been developed, called PerC6, and licenses have been

taken by over 50 partners, including the NIH and the Walter Reed Army Institute, to use this cell

line for new vaccine and biologics production. The goal of the company that created the PerC6 is to

become the production cell line for ALL vaccines, therapeutics antibodies, biologic drugs and gene

therapy.”

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And this has largely come to pass.

In 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a second 90-

day extension to a contract it has with the University of California at San

Francisco that requires UCSF to make “humanized mice” for on-going AIDS

research. The human fetal tissue comes from late-term abortions.

CNSNews reported that “according to an estimate it has published on its

website, the National Institutes of Health (which is a division of HHS) will

spend $95 million this fiscal year alone on research that–like UCSF’s

“humanized mouse” contract–uses human fetal tissue.”

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See here for news on how the Trump administration limited the sale of fetal

parts.

Stop Ebola? Prevent Zika Virus? Cure AIDS? Look for more, not fewer,

aborted fetal products in the future.

Writer Andrea Byrnes was the first producer of U.S. March for Life

coverage at EWTN Global Catholic Network, which she continued to

supervise for seven years. She attended her first HLI conference in 1989,

where she first met Servant of God Dr. Jerome Lejeune. She and her

husband would later pray for Lejeune’s intercession for her son’s health

difficulties discovered before birth, and thanks be to God, he is thriving.

Notes

[1]

Melanie Warner, “Pepsi’s Bizarro World: Boycotted Over Embryonic Cells

Linked to Lo-Cal Soda.” CBS News Moneywatch. June 3, 2011.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-bizarro-world-boycotted-over-

embryonic-cells-linked-to-lo-cal-soda/

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[2]

Melanie Warner, “Food Companies Test Flavorings That Can Mimic

Sugar, Salt or MSG” New York Times. April 6, 2005.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/business/food-companies-test-

flavorings-that-can-mimic-sugar-salt-or-msg.html

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Melanie Warner, “Food Companies Test Flavorings That Can Mimic

Sugar, Salt or MSG” New York Times. April 6, 2005.

[4]

PepsiCo to Debi Vinnedge Executive Director, Children of God for Life.

April 26, 2012.

https://cogforlife.org/wp-

content/uploads/2012/04/pepsiresponse042012.pdf

[5]

Christ Young, “San Diego Company’s New ‘Sweetness Enhancer’ Draws

Scrunity.” Inewsource. KPBS.Org. October 8, 2015

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/08/san-diego-companys-new-

sweetness-enhancer-draws-sc/

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Valerie Robinson, “Aborted fetus cells used in beauty creams.” The

Washington Times. November 3, 2009.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/3/aborted-fetus-cells-

used-in-anti-aging-products/

[7]

Theresa A. Deisher, Phd. “Testimony on Conscience Rights related to

biologic drug disclosure and alternative drugs.” President’s Council on

Bioethics Archive. Georgetown University. September 8, 2008.

https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcbe/transcripts/sept08/deisher_statement.pdf

[8]

Theresa A. Deisher, Phd. “Testimony on Conscience Rights related to

biologic drug disclosure and alternative drugs.” President’s Council on

Bioethics Archive. Georgetown University. September 8, 2008.

[9]

“Dr. Theresa Deisher Guelph, Ontario Canada June 23, 2018.” Vaccine

Choice Canada published on YouTube. August 2, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1k6xLQnJD8

[10]

The National Vaccine Injury Act was signed in 1986 so that manufactures

wouldn’t raise the price of vaccines due to injury lawsuits. Robert Pear,

“Reagan Signs Bill on Drug Exports and Payment for Vaccine Injuries.” New

York Times. November 15,

1986. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/15/us/reagan-signs-bill-on-drug-

exports-and-payment-for-vaccine-injuries.html

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“Dr. Theresa Deisher Guelph, Ontario Canada June 23, 2018.” Vaccine

Choice Canada published on YouTube. August 2, 2018.

[12]

Paige St. John. “Kamala Harris’ support for Planned Parenthood draws

fire after raid on anti-abortion activist. Los Angeles Times. April 7, 2016.

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https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-kamala-harris-planned-

parenthood-20160407-story.html

[13]

DEPOSITION OF STANLEY A. PLOTKIN, M.D.CASE # 2015-831539-

DM, JANUARY 11, 2018, COUNTY OF OAKLAND CIRCUIT COURT,

Reserved, Without Prejudice.

http://www.cafepeyote.com/files/Plotkin_Deposition_-_Summary.pdf

“King of Vaccines Comes Clean!” The HighWire with Del Bigtree. Youtube.

Published. January 17, 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NACBHtFMllA

[14]

Dr. Theresa Deisher: Moral Vaccine Development. Saint Michael

Broadcasting. YouTube. Published March 5, 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEh_BsGwZQ

[15]

Wesley J. Smith. “Adult Stem Cells Now the “Gold Standard.” National

Review. March 15, 2019. 2:40 PM.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/adult-stem-cells-now-the-gold-

standard/

[16]

Robin Toner. “Settling In: Easing Abortion Policy; Clinton Orders

Reversal of Abortion Restrictions Left By Reagan and Bush.” New York

Times. January 23, 1993.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/23/us/settling-easing-abortion-policy-

clinton-orders-reversal-abortion-restrictions.html

[17]

Theresa A. Deisher, Phd. “Testimony on Conscience Rights related to

biologic drug disclosure and alternative drugs.” President’s Council on

Bioethics Archive. Georgetown University. September 8, 2008.

[18]

Terence P. Jeffrey. “HHS Extends Contract to Make ‘Humanized Mice’

With Aborted Baby Parts for Another 90 Days.” CNSNews. March 1, 2019.

5:16 PM.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/hhs-extends-

contract-make-humanized-mice-aborted-baby-parts-another?

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