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Pro-Life News in Brief.(Brief Article)
Court Strikes Down Arizona Fetal Tissue Ban
A three-judge federal appeals court panel struck down Arizona's 1975 ban on the use of fetal tissue from induced abortion December 29, calling it unconstitutionally vague.
The law made it a crime to knowingly use any part of a human "fetus or embryo resulting from an induced abortion in any manner for any medical experimentation or scientific or medical investigation purposes," except if an examination is necessary to diagnose a disease for which the abortion was performed.
The appeals court panel found the terms used in the statute to be "impermissibly vague." In the majority opinion, Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder wrote, "Individuals must be given a reasonable opportunity to discern whether their conduct is proscribed so they can choose whether or not to comply with the law."
Pro-lifers disagreed strongly with the appeals court ruling, saying that it is a "total misreading of common sense language."
The court decision comes after a growing number of reports on the lucrative fetal body part industry. NRL News has featured several articles on companies that market the body parts of babies killed by abortion, making huge profits.
Federal regulations allowing the sale of fetal tissue, passed by Congress in 1993, supposedly make it illegal to pay directly for baby body parts. However, the companies get around the law by "donating" the actual organs, then charging high fees for "retrieval" and "site fees" (see NRL News, March 2000, p. 4).
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...and chief financial officer, and Phil Pendergraft, a former manager of the company...clearing operation months before Son and Pendergraft resigned from First Southwest. The...restraining order to prevent Son and Pendergraft from disclosing proprietary information...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Pro-Life News in Brief.(Brief Article)