Doctor Claimed: It’s “Unethical” Not to Experiment on Aborted Babies

Today, it is illegal to perform experiments on living aborted babies in the US. The issue of fetal experimentation has faded into the background. But it wasn’t always that way.

There was a time, shortly after Roe V Wade, when babies who survived abortion not only were allowed to die, they were sometimes experimented on until they died. And experimentation on living aborted babies is legal in some countries.

ultrasound3d16Dr. Jerald Gaull, then chief of pediatric research at New York State Institute for Basic Research in Mental Retardation on Staten Island, was quoted defending this practice:

“Rather than it being immoral to do what we are trying to do, it is immoral it is a terrible perversion of ethics to throw these fetuses in the incinerator as is usually done, rather than to get some useful information.”

“Operations on Live Fetuses.”San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 1973, page 20.

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The book the article was cited in gives the following information:

Dr.  Jerald Gaull, …was making  periodic trips  to Finland “to experiment on aborted but  still-living  fetuses.”   He severed the nerve connections between brain and body, then surgically removed   the  brain,  lungs,  liver  and  kidneys  for   study   and dissection.

Beyond Abortion, A Chronicle of Fetal Experimentation* by Suzanne M.  Rini, (Avon, NJ: Magnificat Press, 1988) pp.32

I encourage anyone who wants more information on this to read Rini’s book.

LifeNews.com Note: Sarah Terzo is a pro-life liberal who runs ClinicQuotes.com, a web site devoted to exposing the abortion industry. She is a member of the pro-life groups PLAGAL and Secular Pro-Life. Follower her on Twitter.

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