Unwilling Guinea Pigs: Using Foster Care Children For Forced Drug Experiments
Written by Sarah Cain
ABSTRACT
This article was first published in Naturally Good Magazine, issue 1.
In the summer of 2004, Liam Scheff, an independent investigative journalist published the story of Incarnation Children’s Center in New York City, where experimental and highly toxic AIDS drugs were forcibly administered to foster children of the State. Originally published in the article, The House That AIDS Built, the story was subsequently carried by The New York Press with the title: Orphans on Trial. Children refusing experimental medications were surgically implanted tubes to allow direct injections of drugs into their stomachs against their will. In November of the same year, the BBC broadcast Guinea Pig Kids, a video of the story. After airing the documentary just once, the BBC abruptly changed its position and distanced itself from the controversial story, due to threats which came from the United States.
“The FDA encourages studies in pediatric patients. Clinical trials involving children and orphans are therefore legal and not unusual.”
— GlaxoSmithKline, email to Democracy Now!
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