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originally posted by: RobinB022
I was seriously considering donating my body to science [as I have numerous illness' and thought maybe I could help in some type of research-? ... So for his sake I've changed my mind.
Science and research has a lot to lose when people are being taped [edited or not] disrespecting the dead.
678 UW-Madison faculty sign letter on fetal tissue bill 678 UW-Madison faculty sign letter on fetal tissue bill
One widely used cell line known as HEK293 is used in nearly 100 labs on the UW-Madison campus alone and is critical for flu vaccine development and production, the letter says. "There is no suitable substitute for the HEK293 cell. To attempt to find a replacement for these or for cells derived in the future, in all their diverse applications, would cost billions and risk untold numbers of lives." As originally written, the legislation proposed by Rep. André Jacque (R-De Pere) would criminalize the use of cells derived from human fetal tissue. It is already a crime to profit from the sale of fetal tissue, and abortion clinics say no tissue transfers of any kind are happening in Wisconsin. The bill would go further than existing law and ban donations of such tissues or research on long-standing tissue lines — an alarming development for many medical researchers.
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originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
Actually I think that was a little uncalled for...
the funeral arrangements should be made to make the death as easy as possible for the loved ones remaining, if this would cause her son undue stress in a time that will be plenty stressful to begin with, well. I think she is right in her decision.
I will not. It's wrong and how they are going about this are ghoulish
I'm sorry for those whose internal compass is so broken they can't see that
After I'm dead, I don't care if interns and med students get a laugh or release some tension joking around with my remains. If any part of me is aware at that point, I will gladly suck up the youth and the laughter!
I'm glad that science can extend my life, through tissue and organ donation for the benefit of another living human being, but don't rush my death to make it happen, that's all.
originally posted by: RobinB022
a reply to: grandmakdw
If one finds this ethical and moral
and they have no problem donating
their body for an organ donation
and having the doctors laughing
at your body, and laughing over
your body and making jokes about
your body. Then you have a different
set of ethics than I do.
This is important and has the potential to make a big difference in the amount of people considering donation of their bodies to science.
I was seriously considering donating my body to science [as I have numerous illness' and thought maybe I could help in some type of research-?] But my eldest son can't stand the idea that my body could be disrespected. For years I had my mind made up, but I do have to consider my sons' thoughts, after all, he'll be the one alive and left to deal with his thoughts.. I'd be dead and have nothing to worry about. So for his sake I've changed my mind.
Science and research has a lot to lose when people are being taped [edited or not] disrespecting the dead.
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, admitted in an 11-page letter Thursday that its affiliates have accepted payments ranging from $45 to $60 “per tissue specimen” from abortions, but said that they were reimbursements to cover costs, which federal law allows.
Planned Parenthood admits it manipulates rules on fetal organ sales to maximize profit
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Swills
Shuuuurrr it's "Just" covering costs.
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
don't do it, they might hook your brain up to life support , not that we have any idea what happens to our body parts anyway, who know what they do or are capable of.
First almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers claim
Brain grown in lab
They say their brain also contains a spinal cord, signalling circuitry and even a retina. They think, think it is not conscious.
In a discovery hearing Friday, counsel for defendants notified the court that all defendants, including the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and Biomax, plan to plead the Fifth Amendment in response to the pending discovery requests in order to refrain from self-incrimination.
prochoice.org...
During the taped meeting Dr. Nucatola expressly stated that “nobody should be selling tissue. That’s just not the goal here.” This statement was omitted by Defendants from their excerpted tape.
Ten times during the conversation, Dr. Nucatola said Planned Parenthood would not sell tissue or profit in any way from tissue donations. All ten instances were cut out of the video released by the Defendants.
At one point, Dr. Nucatola stated that reimbursement costs for a tissue specimen could range from $30 to $100. This statement was immediately clarified by Dr. Nucatola, who explained that the reimbursement amount could only be based on the clinic’s costs, which is lawful. Dr. Nucatola explained: “It just has to do with space issues, are you sending someone there who’s going to be doing everything, is there shipping involved, is somebody going to have to take it out… [I]t’s really just about if anyone were ever to ask them, well what do you do for this $60, how can you justify that? …. So it needs to be justifiable.” This important passage was omitted entirely by Defendants in their effort to smear lawful tissue donation programs and Dr. Nucatola.
Dr. Nucatola repeatedly stated that Planned Parenthood affiliates do not profit from tissue donation. For example, she says: “To them, this is not a service they should be making money from, it’s something they should be able to offer this to their patients, in a way that doesn’t impact them”; “affiliates are not looking to make money by doing this. They’re looking to serve their patients and just make it not impact their bottom line”; “we’re not looking to make money from this, our goal is to keep access available”; and “this is not a new revenue stream that affiliates are looking at, this is a way to offer the patient the service that they want, do good for the medical community and still have access.” Not a single one of these comments was included in Defendants’ excerpted and misleading video. They were purposely cut to create the false impression that Dr. Nucatola was saying the exact opposite of what she actually said.
Nearly all of Dr. Nucatola’s references to “tissue donation” are deleted from the tape.
The video was cut to convey the impression that nearly all Planned Parenthood affiliates have tissue donation programs. To the contrary, just a small number of affiliates have such programs, to help women and families who wish to donate tissue to advance life-saving medical research.
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on page 14 of the complaint that can be found following the links on the page I linked to above...
it's a pdf file....