Posted on 08/08/2006 7:57:04 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
LONDON, August 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The ancient quest of fashionable women to stave off the effects of age has always left them open to the claims of swindlers. The latest edition of the snake oil chronicles, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, has a more “scientific” cachet and involves injecting stem cells gleaned from aborted babies as well as umbilical cord blood directly into the skin.
Scores of British women are opting for a procedure that stem cell experts are condemning as charlatanry. A private British clinic makes arrangements for well-to-do English women to travel to Rotterdam in the Netherlands for the treatment, which is as yet illegal in the UK. Treatment centres can be found online, the Mail reveals, offering “aesthetic stem cell treatments” for between £150 and £20,000.
The Daily Mail, however, only mentions the use of umbilical cord stem cells in these treatments and describes this as “barbaric,” while the paper’s editorial policy is in full support of abortion and embryonic stem cell research. The Mail conflates the debate on stem cells calling all stem cell research “controversial,” including ethically unproblematic and medically successful umbilical cord stem cell treatments.
Under the headline, “A Barbaric Kind of Beauty,” The Mail’s Andrea Thompson writes, “In America, President Bush has denounced stem-cell therapy even for medical purposes as 'godless', vetoing any public funding.” Bush, however, along with the pro-life community, has condemned only that stem cell research that results in the death of human beings at the embryonic stage of life.
While the Daily Mail misrepresents the nature of the stem cell debate, a US group has found the real barbarism. Concerned Women for America has discovered that the practice of abortion being used to provide tissue for beauty treatments in such exclusive clinics is widespread.
Concerned Women for America says that poor women are being paid up to $200 dollars to have their unborn children killed between 8 and 12 weeks gestation when the foetuses are “harvested” for their stem cells, which are then sold to exclusive cosmetic clinics.
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of CWA’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, said “It is hard to believe that such atrocities are going on today. These exclusive and exorbitant treatments are available in such varied locales as Barbados, Moscow, Dominican Republic and in Rotterdam.”
“Not only is the origin of the foetuses immoral and inhumane; there are medical problems and complications associated with the injections. This savage and repulsive ‘brave new world’ of human sacrifices in the quest for eternal youth is a prime example of the end results when all moral boundaries are destroyed,” Crouse continued.
There are FReepers who defend kiddie porn with the "art" defense.
It enrages me. I have been spending hours now fantasizing about what I would do to these people if I were King of the World.
You ought to pay a bit closer attention ... many here at FR do not believe a human being is there in the womb at early age. There are many at FR who are okay with harvesting embryos for their body parts ... by extension, this heinous utilization isn't going to actually bother them. If the harvesting for dissection were in the eighth or ninth month, well, maybe that would bother them, but even that can be rationalized away if it helps someone older.
I agree with you, I think this article is bad exaggeration.
There is always a tiny group who can excuse anything... well .. to themselves
So you choose to not believe the advertising from these chop shops? I guess that's the real meaning of 'choice' don'tchaknow. Hear no, see no, there ain't no ... as long as you can keep your ears closed and your eyes covered.
you know, I used to think that aztecs were savages and that we were so much better than them. I guess I was wrong.
If jesus doesn't come back within the next 200 years I wonder what people will think of us.
Don't get snippy with me, pal. That article does not match what is described in the article it references. It does not ring true.
the aztecs didn't have the "sophistication" that modern society has -- the education, standard of living, relative peace, religious instruction,etc.
This leaves the modern man far more culpable, collectively.
See post #11 ... pal.
"The latest edition of the snake oil chronicles, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, has a more “scientific” cachet and involves injecting stem cells gleaned from aborted babies as well as umbilical cord blood directly into the skin."
Did anyone notice in the Congress' embryonic stem cell debate that no mention was made of the current use of aborted babies' stem cells!!
I highly doubt it. This one has Urban Legend written all over it.
Until you show me those things, I will take it as an exaggeration.
I'll continue to wait for the apology for your snotty remarks, too.
Here you go, Rembrandt_fan. Never say I never gave you anything.
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You can guarantee that Planned Parenthood would be marketing the same said "services" here in the US if they were allowed to. This is exactly where the pro-death crowd wants to take abortion in the US - beyond just a convenience, but as an "alternative" beauty treatment...
this is about as sick as it gets.
What seems wrong to some is acceptable to others. We must respect each others' choices. Each must find his own truth.../sarc
When the handbasket's just not enough and only the Hell Express will do...
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