$265,000 number Clinton's Speech AdvaMed RTI Biologics Tutogen
A seemingly small but interesting lead of mine just turned out to be a whale of a catch. Hillary Clinton was paid 265,000 dollars by AdvaMed for a single speech. It turns out a member of AdvaMed is RTI Surgical which, while then known as RTI Biologics, illegally harvested dead bodies for bone marrow, organs, and tissue from the Ukraine to sell for a profit. Tutogen was their German division that was caught also using tissue stolen from dead corpses in the Ukraine. Many of the corpses they used also were riddled with diseases and negatively hurt the people who got transplants of their organic materials. It should be noted, Hillary took these peoples money after all this had already come out about them.
Haiti
RTI Biologics also donated allografts to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010, probably to try to get some more illegal tissue from there.
BioFlorida PhRma Shkreli
But there is more! I have discovered a group that encompasses Tavistock, RTI Surgical and other shady groups. It is called BioFlorida. While it admittedly has a ton of members and many of the lower paying ones are probably honest businesses their premiere member list reads like a whose-who of pharma corruption. One is PhRma whose president Stephen Ubl used to work for AdvaMed. When PhRma went after Martin Shkreli the "bad boy" of pharma got pissed off. Apparently even he thought that he didn't hold a candle to the likes of BioFlorida members like PhRma and Amgen.
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What you are thinking about funding is a right wing lie -- propaganda.
BECAUSE OF THE HYDE AMENDMENT NO FEDERAL FUNDS CAN BE USED TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS. http://billmoyers.com/content/five-facts-you-should-know-about-the-hyde-amendment/
Five Facts You Should Know About the Hyde Amendment
“I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion: a rich woman, a middle-class woman or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the… Medicaid bill.”
About 42 percent of women who have abortions live below the poverty line. The unintended pregnancy rate among poor women is five times the rates for higher-income women, as is the abortion rate. One reported reason for the discrepancy is poor women’s limited access to contraception.
By restricting Medicaid funding for abortion, one in four low-income women who would like to obtain abortions are instead forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. Since the Hyde Amendment was enacted more than 35 years ago, over one million women have been unable to afford abortions.
Since the Hyde Amendment passed, only four states have voluntarily decided to use their funds to cover abortion. Another 13 states are required to do so by court order, just as they would other forms of health care. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia basically follow the Hyde Amendment as the congressman intended, with some small variations. One state, South Dakota, only pays for abortion when a woman’s life is in danger, but not in cases of rape and incest — an apparent violation of federal law.
In order to assuage opponents of abortion in his own party, President Obama signed an executive order stating that The Affordable Care Act — which could expand Medicaid to cover as many 21.3 million additional low-income Americans by 2022 — would maintain current Hyde Amendment restrictions.