Posted on 12/12/2006 1:33:32 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.
But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.
Wall of silence
The BBC has spoken to mothers from the city of Kharkiv who say they gave birth to healthy babies, only to have them taken by maternity staff.
In 2003 the authorities agreed to exhume around 30 bodies of foetuses and full-term babies from a cemetery used by maternity hospital number six.
One campaigner was allowed into the autopsy to gather video evidence. She has given that footage to the BBC and Council of Europe.
In its report, the Council describes a general culture of trafficking of children snatched at birth, and a wall of silence from hospital staff upwards over their fate.
The pictures show organs, including brains, have been stripped - and some bodies dismembered.
A senior British forensic pathologist says he is very concerned to see bodies in pieces - as that is not standard post-mortem practice.
It could possibly be a result of harvesting stem cells from bone marrow.
Hospital number six denies the allegations.
After all, I'm quite sure that all of those harvested stem cells are being used to support research into cures for terrible diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons.
And wouldn't Mr. Fox and his ilk tell us that it is inhumane to halt pursuit of curing terrible diseases?
The only difference betweeen killing babies for stem cells and "harvesting embryos" for their stem cells is that one occurs earlier in the life of a human being.
If it's true, it's absolutely awful. Prayers for the children.
That's sick, if true. Poor, sweet children. (and here I sit without any posterity, which was not by choice)
I think I am going to hold judgement
Russia is not too happy with the Ukrain right now - this smells of InfoWar - add to that -- the BBC ain't too bright these days - plus they have an axe to grind on this one.
I don't think anything could surprise me from that place.
This is pretty much just the beginning. We may be able to prevent this type of thing in the civilized world but elsewhere its going to be huge business. Patronized by tons of westerners looking for miracle cures or a way to live forever. Sick.
The people of Russia and thereabouts seem to be strangely amoral when it comes to this sort of thing. I remember reading some 15 or 20 years ago about aborted fetuses (or, if you prefer, babies) being shipped to the West in large stainless steel canisters to be used in ladies' face lotions. They were quietly imported from the former Soviet Union because it was illegal to put human tissue to such uses in the West.
Ah, the bitter harvest of embryonic stem cells!
Will YOUR baby be safe when a zillionaire needs his cells?
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I heard Rush talking about it today and it is truly one of the most disturbing things that I have ever heard.
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