18 October 2005
Experiments using aborted foetuses abhorrent
News that research scientists at Auckland University are using aborted human foetuses for eye experiments has drawn a
sharp response from Voice For Life President, Mrs Josephine Reeves.
“There can be few acts more vile than the buying and selling of human beings for scientific research that, quite
literally, has cost them their life,” she says. “
The University defends the experiments on the grounds that an ‘approval process’ has been followed. This approval
process would appear to support the practice of aborted foetuses being marketed commercially for scientific research.
“If experiments were carried out using newborn babies that were deliberately killed for this purpose, there would quite
rightly be an absolute uproar. Finding a scientific and commercial use for human foetuses, deliberately aborted, is
equally abhorrent,” according to Mrs Reeves.
Voice For Life recommends that Auckland University join other organisations worldwide to stop the trafficking in human
body parts, sourced from the practice of deliberate abortion.
ENDS