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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (66580)	3/27/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

I am very thankful (and contrary to how it may sound here, I say the following with extraordinary humbleness and thanksgiving before God and all of you), again, I am very thankful to have been blessed with a moral compass that has enabled me to promote the right to life for innocent humans. I could as easily have been cursed with pro-abortion belief. Now, whatever happens in the future, I will sincerely rest easy, knowing I have no one's blood, even philosophically speaking, on my hands. Human Chop Shops Exposed Phyllis Schlafly March 15, 2000 Have you ever wanted to buy the brain of an eight-week-old baby? You can, for $999. Did you ever think you'd want a baby's eyes or liver or gonads? Yours, for $75, $150 or $550 respectively. Does that seem like a sick joke posted on eBay? Sadly, it's not funny; it's the tip of the iceberg of a newly uncovered industry specializing in the trafficking of body parts and organs taken from aborted babies. The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on March 9 <http://com-notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/12b6a0781fa86e88852567e5007558f4/b2a0f6da5cd0307e8525689c0071430d?OpenDocument> about the sale and purchase of baby body parts. Life Dynamics Inc., a pro-life group based in Texas, exposed this body-parts industry as the result of undercover work by lab technicians. In addition to a body-parts price list that can turn one's stomach, the undercover investigators turned up page after page of orders from prominent research universities and pharmaceutical companies. Even the federal government's own National Institutes of Health has been ordering baby body parts. The order forms specify which body parts the researchers desire. Here are some direct quotes: "Whole Eyes, 13-20 wks," "Brain, 8-24 weeks," "whole intact Leg, include ENTIRE HIP JOINT, 22-23(-) weeks gest. ... Age of fetus must be determined and noted.***indicate foot pad measurement." "Note Age, Race, Sex." Most order forms come with specific directions, e.g., "Dissect lungs intact from 17 to 24 week fetal cadaver." "Dissect by cutting through symphysis pubis and include WHOLE Ilium. To be removed from fetal cadaver within 10 minutes." When an order calls for fetal tissue retrieval to be completed within 10 minutes, a live birth is highly likely. When an order stipulates something like "no anomalies" or "no congenital abnormalities," those abortions are probably being done on healthy late-term babies. The order forms also include specific shipping instructions. "Ship on fresh wet ice. Next day." "Ship on dry ice." "Ship next day. Federal Express." The buyers and sellers of these parts obviously don't believe that aborted babies are just "blobs of tissue." We wonder if the mothers would go ahead with their abortions if they knew that others were cutting up and selling their babies. One of Bill Clinton's first executive orders in 1993 lifted the ban on federal funding for so-called "fetal tissue research" that involved using the organs and tissue obtained from aborted babies. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) then codified this executive order by shepherding through the then-Democratic Congress the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act (Public Law 103-43 <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/L?d103:./list/bd/d103pl.lst:1[1-465](Public_Laws)\|TOM:/bss/d103query.html\|>), which Clinton signed on June 10, 1993. This law specifically forbids any person to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce." But it left a big loophole: it allows "reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of human fetal tissue." That's the loophole which the body-parts harvesting industries have been exploiting. The brochure of one of these body-parts companies, called "Opening Lines," states that it "... was formed to maximize the utilization of fresh fetal tissue we process. Our daily average case volume exceeds 1500...." Opening Lines weasels around the federal restrictions on buying human body parts by leasing space in abortion clinics "to perform the harvesting and distribution" and telling the clinic managers they can use the rent payments "to offset your clinic's overhead." Opening Lines advertises that it can "train your staff to harvest and process" the babies and, "based on your volume we will reimburse part or all of your employee's salary, thereby reducing your overhead." Last October 21 and 22, Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) took to the Senate floor to tell Americans about these human chop shops in abortion clinics around the country. Although C-Span coverage resulted in hundreds of phone calls to the Capitol, the Senate voted 51 to 46 <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1061/vote_00338.html> against Smith's amendment <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:SP02324:> designed to monitor the legal loopholes currently used to circumvent the law. On November 9, the House by voice vote passed H.Res. 350 <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.res.00350:> calling on Congress to "exercise oversight responsibilities and conduct hearings and take appropriate steps if necessary concerning private companies that are involved in the trafficking of baby body parts for profit." The sponsors were Representatives Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Joseph Pitts (R-PA). Thanks to Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-VA), the March 9 hearing <http://com-notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/12b6a0781fa86e88852567e5007558f4/b2a0f6da5cd0307e8525689c0071430d?OpenDocument> should lay out the paper trail that documents this whole ghoulish business. eagleforum.org

To: jlallen who wrote (66580)	3/31/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

4 judges will try their darndest to find an innocent explanation for Norma Johnson's assigning trials of presidential friends and fund-raisers to Friends of Bill. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five judges will launch a full-scale inquiry into why the chief federal judge in the District of Columbia sent prosecutions of presidential friends and fund-raisers to judges appointed by President Clinton. Acting on a complaint alleging judicial misconduct, federal appeals Judge Stephen Williams chose three Republicans and a Clinton appointee to help him delve into the conduct of Chief Judge Norma Holloway Johnson of the U.S. District Court. She bypassed the computerized system of randomly assigning cases in directing six prosecutions in the Whitewater and campaign fund-raising scandals to Clinton-appointed judges. A conservative group, Judicial Watch, filed a complaint against Johnson last summer after The Associated Press revealed that prosecutions against Clinton fund-raiser Charlie Trie and long-time presidential friend Webster Hubbell were assigned to Clinton appointees. Williams threw out the complaint, but it was reopened after Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., presented additional evidence that besides the Trie and Hubbell cases, Johnson had sent four other fund-raising cases to Clinton appointees. The other cases included the guilty plea of prominent Miami businessman Howard Glicken, a former fund-raiser for Vice President Al Gore. The chief judge has never publicly explained why she bypassed the random assignment system in Glicken's case. In a letter to a newspaper last summer, Johnson said she made the special assignments to 'move the docket as expeditiously as possible' and that politics was 'never a factor.' In a letter Tuesday to Judicial Watch and Coble, the federal appeals court listed the four judges on the panel. Under court rules, Williams, a Reagan appointee, also will sit on the panel. The four Washington-based judges named to the panel are: --Judith W. Rogers, a Clinton appointee on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. --A. Raymond Randolph, a Bush appointee in the same circuit. --U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan, a Reagan appointee. --U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a Reagan appointee. newsday.com