The article describes the "Secrets of the Dead-Baby Industry" and, from eye-witness accounts, that aborted fetuses are being dissected alive, harvested and sold in pieces to fuel a vast research enterprise.  The results of "failed abortions" don't stymie the ghouls who profit from and run this industry.  If the "aborted" babies are still alive when they see the light of the operating theater, they will be drowned, stabbed, beaten to death with tongs, or perhaps simply left to die before they are rendered.

A side bar (p. 34) to the Alberta Report's cover story describes in detail the brochure of one of the fetal-tissue traders, Opening Lines, A Division of Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc..  The side bar article wasn't contained in the Internet edition of the Alberta Report.  Here are some details from the side bar.

The cadaver of a single aborted fetus isn't worth very much if sold whole ($600 if more than eight weeks old) but worth thousands if rendered into various components, of which the brain commands the highest price, $999 (30% discount if significantly fragmented), and with the skin of an aborted baby of more than 12 weeks gestation bringing in a mere $100, and a single eye no more than $50.

The brochure invites abortionists to "find out how you can turn your patient's decision into something wonderful."

The side bar contained a copy of the

[and so on.  In total, a list of 35 body parts and their prices, with the prices ranging from $50 to $999, with an intact embryonic cadaver selling for $600 and gonads selling for $550.  The font size is too small to permit successful scanning, but if you are interested, you may want to write to Opening Lines for a copy of the brochure. — WHS]

Opening Lines is one of two such organizations that were discovered by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Inc..  The other is the Anatomic Gift Foundation, founded in 1994 by Jim and Brenda Bardsley, who have since opened branch offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Aurora, Colorado.  The article states that the quoted prices may seem low, but that if the prices for all of the parts are added up that the parts of a single aborted baby are worth thousands.

The Opening Lines brochure states that "Our daily average case volume exceeds 1,500 and we serve clinics across the United States."  Dr. Jones is said to be an aggressive salesman who is "eager to offer reduced rates for bulk orders.  He also said in a recent taped interview that he is actively pursuing fetal tissue sources in Mexico and Canada."

More in the cover story of the August 23, 1999 issue of the Alberta Report

The full side-bar story: "Cut-throat competitiveness"

The Pro-Life web site contains another article pertaining to the issue.

It's cannibalism, no doubt!

Mark Crutcher states that about 40 million unborn children are aborted world-wide each year.  Accurate statistics for that are of course hard to come by, but the 40 million figure appears to be a conservative estimate.  If the North American abortion rates are extrapolated to the whole world, the figure comes to 32 million abortions per year.  Going by information provided on abortions in Webster's Interactive Encyclopedia, it can be calculated that there are 55 millions abortions, worldwide, per year.  That can't be too far out.  After all, the World Bank, the UN, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, all promote and generously fund abortion policies, specifically in the underdeveloped nations, and most actively in the countries whose inhabitants have the darkest colour of their skin.

It shouldn't be too hard to expand the fetal tissue trade into one of the most profitable enterprises on Earth, should it?  The opportunities boggle the mind.  Although the research market would no doubt become saturated in a very short time, there's always the possibility of rendering the cadavers of our unborn children into various ointments, such as rejuvenating skin cremes, or using them as a source of a large variety of medical products, such as bio-engineered organ transplants, skin grafts, etc..  The possibilities are endless.  I would guess that the market potential in the trade of fetuses alone must be in the order of about $40 billion per year, with the secondary industries perhaps increasing the value of fetuses by a factor of ten.

The beauty of the idea is that there doesn't need to be any waste.  Whatever remnants of an unborn child remain could easily be converted into various food or health products.  There is nothing preventing us from partaking of fetuses by mouth, in products that can be had over the counter, so to speak, instead of having the medical industry giving them to us in the form of injections or elaborate organ transplants.

Most of us don't agree with any of that, of course, but that doesn't mean it won't happen or that it doesn't happen already.  We've come almost all of the way.  It's only one more small step.  More correctly, it is only a matter of scale.  It can be done.  It is not being prohibited.  It is being done already, therefore it will grow into a large-scale practice.

And we worry about human rights violations and equitable justice?  If we have no compunction about violating life itself, human life in its most vulnerable state, in what used to be the safest place in the life cycle of humans, what hope do any human rights have to survive?

Alberta Report, 2003 08 23, cover story: Cannibalism

Full text of related side-bar story: Cut-throat competitiveness

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