Wisconsin lawmakers have acted to ban the sale of fetal parts from aborted babies, but not all are on board with the proposal.
The proposal for the ban came from GOP Reps. Andre Jacque and Joel Kleefisch in response to videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Such videos featured top Planned Parenthood employees discussing a fetal parts business.
In response, 687 faculty members of University of Wisconsin-Madison signed a letter to the editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel against the ban.
They question “whether legislators have considered the ethical implications of denying current and future patients the benefits of the research that would be blocked by this legislation.”
The letter also claims that research from fetal tissue cells has been beneficial with vaccines and treatments for diseases, and that the cell lines “are commonly used in research in laboratories worldwide.”
It is noteworthy that the faculty would mention “ethical implications.” The very nature of research from fetal cells has “ethical implications” which the faculty may not have considered in their letter.
Planned Parenthood has maintained that their handling of fetal tissue is done legally. The organization has said that they have the consent of mothers to donate the fetal tissue. Video evidence may dispute that though, as it alleges Planned Parenthood is profiting from the sale of the body parts of babies they abort.
