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After years of complaints about Tom Monaghan’s new
Ave Maria University and his fights with priests like Father Fessio and with the local bishop’s I have wondered if this
would be a Catholic University or not.
The following report by my good friend, Randy Engel, has me convinced
that Monaghan cannot
be trusted to be faithful to Catholic Teaching at this University. To allow Jackson Labs to take over 40 acres
of this property is the most sinful thing I have ever heard for a so-called
Catholic. Jackson Laboratory is noted
for the science of birth control, baby killing, euthanasia and stem cells from a
vitro fetus.
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by Randy Engel
Part II – Ave Maria, Jackson Laboratory and Mass
Eugenic Killing
Introduction
In Part I of this series (April 26, 2010) “Eugenics Meets the Pizza
King – Ave Maria in the Shadow of Auschwitz,” I presented the basic facts on
plans to construct a $710 million Jackson
Laboratory biotech satellite facility in the Ave
Maria Stewardship Community District, near the campus of Ave Maria
University. The 50 acre site (with more to come) was donated by Barron
Collier Companies after BCC’s business partner,
Domino pizza magnet and Chancellor (CEO) of AMU, Tom Monaghan agreed to the
transaction following a brief phase of “due diligence.”
Part I also provided
biographical data on Jackson Laboratory founder C.C. Little’s dark connections
to the eugenic, birth control and euthanasia movements of the 20th
century.
Interestingly, at its 78th annual meeting on August 18, 2007,
Jackson Laboratory launched its promotional “National Council” project in
Maine, Boston, New York, Philadelphia -- and a short while later, in Naples,
Florida, and selected as president, C.C. Little’s grandson, architect Sam
Little, the patriarch of the Jackson Laboratory’s “first family.”
Part I also included information on current anti-life programs of the
Jackson Lab’s Bar Harbor, Maine-based research facility, which involve human
embryonic stem cell research programs and international workshops. These
programs and workshops offer hands-on training for investigators wishing to
learn how to culture, manipulate, and differentiate human embryonic stem cells from in vitro.
The Jackson Laboratory is also involved
in male contraceptive research and its seminars and lectures promote medical
genetics, a.k.a., eugenics.
Further involvement in anti-life programs was noted by AveWatch http://avewatch.com/?p=794,
when in September 2009, Terry Magnuson, chair of the Jackson Laboratory’s Board
of Scientific Overseers, was appointed to the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) new advisory panel: the Working Group for Human Embryonic Stem Cell
Eligibility Review.
But
alas, Monaghan & Co, have decided to stonewall the Jackson Lab anti-life
issue, with the exception of one of their advance public relations scouts, a
Father Robert Garrity, who e-mailed me that I was
“confused” about the situation -- as “Jackson does not plan to do anything
which is morally wrong, such as embryonic stem-cell research, at the lab being
proposed for Ave Maria Town. …” Never mind that Jackson Vice President Charles
Hewett has publicly stated that his firm is “not willing to rule out human
embryonic stem cell research.” http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/apr/10/jackson-lab-biomedical-research-and-ave-maria-neig/
So it’s time once again to “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,” and
give Mr. Monaghan, and Ave Maria Town residents – as
well as the
Jackson Laboratory West –
In 2001, the
Jackson Lab established JAX-West, a
small facility in
In
November 2004,
In
late 2008, Jackson Laboratory relocated and expanded its
Surprise! One month later, on June 22, 2009, Jackson Labs
announced that its spanking-new Sacramento facility had received a $3.4 million
grant from the CIRM to develop mouse models which can support long-term
transplantation with human stem cells and can be used in stem cell research.
This means that human embryos are being used by Jackson Lab researchers to
produce immune-deficient mouse models of human diseases that can be used for
testing human stem cell therapies.
Why have
Geneticists as Mass Murderers
Among the featured speakers at the May 2009 Sacramento Grand Opening
was Mahendra Rao, M.D.,
Ph.D. Although hardly a recognizable household name, Rao
is famous in international biotech circles for his defense of human embryonic
stem cell research. In October 2005, Rao quit his
prestigious post as head of the federal NIH Institute on Aging, Stem Cell
Biology Unit/Laboratory of Neurosciences, in
In the Jackson Lab promotional video available at http://jaxmice.jax.org/california-facility/symposiumRao.html,
Rao uses the euphemistic term “fertilized embryo” to
casually describe a very young human being who is being methodically killed in
the spic and span hell of a genetic laboratory in order to develop mouse HuES cell lines:
So what was done was, you took human cells out, you know, from a fertilized
embryo, you grow them on mouse feeders, you use the same combination of
growth factors, and you culture them in much the same way, and you got mouse ES
cell lines (emphasis added).
A fertilized embryo? You’ve got to be kidding.
You can’t fertilize an embryo. It’s a non-sequitur. It appears that researchers
like Rao just cannot bring themselves to admit the
ugly truth – that their work involves the cold-blooded calculated killing of
individual living human beings at the very earliest stages of their existence –
so they hide behind artful language to anesthetize their consciences.
But they are not the only culprits on the eugenic block.
Take, for example, medical geneticists who perform BABI, the incredibly
facetious acronym for Blastomere Analysis Before Implantation, the latest and most lethal prenatal
diagnosis package on the market today.
The preferred method of initiating the BABI process is to use in
vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure favored by the Jackson Lab but
condemned by the Catholic Church. Following artificially induced
super-ovulation of the woman, mature eggs are
collected and fertilized in test tubes in order to produce multiple human
embryos. At the 8-cell stage, a single cell is excised from each human embryo
and these are screened for markers indicating a gene anomaly. One, two or three
of the “normal” embryos are implanted into the hormonally prepared womb of the
mother. “Affected” embryos or “rejects” are destroyed. “Spare” or “orphaned”
embryos are stored in frozen concentration cans or donated or sold to research
labs.
According to the U.S. Public Health Service, BABI is a form of “family
planning” which permits “genetically disadvantaged people” to have children
free of serious birth defects without the “family nightmare” of late abortion.
According to Dr. Robert G. Edwards, the father of IVF, BABI is the “preclinical
abortion of blighted ova.” Not known as a eugenic wallflower, Edwards says that
BABI eliminates the need for both the treatment and care of handicapped
children and adults. Health by Death – now that’s a consoling thought!
As a rule, BABI specialists will create a minimum of ten human embryos,
per cycle, in order to be assured of getting one ‘take home baby.’
Sometimes they produce more. For example, in one celebrated case, BABI was used
to produce a baby that could provide stem cells to a sibling born with Franconi’s anemia. In the end, after 4 IVF cycles, the body
count stood at 29 dead in order to produce the single child who would act as
the donor for his affected sibling.
The Institute of Personalized Medicine
This bring us to the all-important question as to what type of
research, clinical studies, and “preventative” health care will be carried out
at the proposed Jackson Lab’s Institute of Personalized Medicine (IPM)
and the satellite medical research facilities and hospitals surrounding
the Institute.
According to the Jackson Lab (http://genetichealth.jax.org/personalized-medicine/what-is/benefits.html):
Personalized medicine means that one day, doctors and genetic
counselors will be able to craft a lifelong health maintenance strategy
tailored to a person’s unique genetic constitution. It will be possible to
predict susceptibility to diseases and to prevent, delay or mitigate those
diseases with precisely chosen medicines, therapies and customized lifestyle
advice.
The key words here are “doctors and genetic counselors,” and the
prevention of diseases.
It is a well-publicized fact that Jackson Lab was a major force in the
creation in 1990, of the $3 billion, 10-year Human Genome Project of the NIH
and the Department of Energy.
What is less known and appreciated by the average American is that the
tax-funded Genome Project is fundamentally eugenic, both in its heart of hearts
and in the clinical and public health practices that flow from it. To date,
genetic tests for more than 1,200 diseases have been developed, although the
frenzied search for genetic markers for the prenatal diagnosis of cystic
fibrosis and autism has still evaded NIH-funded researchers.
The first step of eugenic killing is genetic counseling, which the
Jackson Lab says will be part of its IPM program. Now genetic counseling and
its auxiliary medical partners, prenatal diagnosis and abortion of affected
children, eviscerates the Hippocratic Oath. For, whereas, traditional medicine
seeks to treat, heal, cure and console patients, the object of prenatal
diagnosis is to seek out and destroy affected unborn patients in utero.
Logically, among the clientele seeking reproductive advice at the IPM
will be “at-risk” or “high-risk” patients who wish to have a child or
additional children unaffected by serious genetic or metabolic disorders. They
will be advised of the availability of various prenatal diagnostic techniques
including Chorion Villus
Sampling, Alpha Fetal Protein Testing, mid-trimester Amniocentesis, Fetoscopy, (and newer IVF/BABI). Affected children will be
destroyed. But where will the killing take place?
Probably not at the IPM, but in a specialized medical facility or
hospital in the vicinity of Jackson Lab’s IPM, which must be willing and able
to carryout eugenic abortion in the first, second and even third-trimester of
pregnancy.
On May 20, 2010, Michael Hyde, Vice-President for Advancement and
External Relations for the Jackson Laboratory, was interviewed by members of
the press at the Naples Harbor Yacht Club. One of the questions concerned the
issue of human stem cell research. According to Hyde, nobody from Ave Maria or
elsewhere had ever asked Jackson Laboratory to give its assurance that it would
refrain from human embryonic stem cell research on its property. Nor, it was
insinuated by Hyde, would
All this, and yet we have
heard nothing from the officials, faculty and staff of Ave Maria University
including its Chancellor, Tom Monaghan, and the Ave
Maria Stewardship Community District –
where the Jackson Institute and its auxiliary medical facilities will be
located. Nor have we heard a word of opposition from the residents of the Ave
Maria Town, except for Catholic journalist and resident, Marielena
Montesino de Stuart. http://romancatholicworld.wordpress.com/category/the-chronicles-of-ave-maria-%C2%A9/
For God's
sake-- why?
End
Released: Monday, June 7, 2010
This text online at http://www.uscl.info/index.php?pr=Press_Releases
[scroll down to Part II]
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[Randy Engel is a prolife veteran of more than 40 years. Engel is the
founder and Director of the U.S. Coalition for Life (www.uscl.info),
the oldest pro-life research agency in the United States and the co-founder
with Dr. Jerome Lejeune of Paris, of the
Pittsburgh-based International Foundation for Genetic Research/Michael Fund (www.michaelfund.org), the pro-life
alternative to the March of Dimes. The Michael Fund, created in 1978,
combines a pro-life philosophy with a truly therapeutic research program centering
on treatments/ and cures for chromosomal disorders especially Down syndrome.]
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