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Confirmed: Skin cream contains fetal proteins
WND ^ | 10/28/09 | Drew Zahn

Posted on 10/28/2009 11:04:29 PM PDT by Nachum

A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer whose website openly admits some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby.

Children of God for Life is a non-profit organization focused on the bioethics of embryonic tissue use in medicine and manufacturing. One of its current campaigns includes petitioning pharmaceutical companies to produce safe, effective alternatives to vaccines derived or cultivated from aborted fetal tissue.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; biogel; confirmed; cream; deathculture; fetal; journee; lumiere; moralabsolutes; neocutis; pharmaceuticals; prolife; skin
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From the movie "Soylent Green"

....It's made from PEOPLE

(Ugh!)

1 posted on 10/28/2009 11:04:30 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Whew! For a second there, I was worried it might be La Mer. Cuz I would hate to spend a bazillion dollars a jar on an evil product.
(j/k, I bought it once since it sounded so cool - yet I continued to age, oddly enough...)


2 posted on 10/28/2009 11:26:59 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Nachum
BARF
3 posted on 10/28/2009 11:30:21 PM PDT by Waryone (II Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Nachum

My stomach sank when I saw this. It’s one thing to talk about abortion (which I believe is wrong btw), but using the aborted child as an ingredient for skin cream?

Despicable.


4 posted on 10/28/2009 11:44:46 PM PDT by UAConservative (Leapin' Larry is leapin' again...straight into a prison jumpsuit)
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To: Nachum

Remember the story about the countess who bathed in human blood to maintain her youthful appearance?

Looks like despite our technological progress the human heart is as dark as ever.


5 posted on 10/29/2009 12:01:11 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Nachum

Because of the bad publicity, they’re going to have to change the name of the product.

They’re going to call it “Babyface.”


6 posted on 10/29/2009 12:35:08 AM PDT by Erasmus (So, people call me a smartass. "I'm not smart," I protest.)
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To: Nachum
I like the term "High-Tech Cannibalism" to describe what is going on in the world with scientist so wanting to get their hands on babies and fetuses to "feed to the old" as a youth or health treatment. It so strange how we convulse at the callousness of human and infant sacrifice of the old civilizations, but somehow a big chunk of our population fails to see it in our own.

It's almost as if an evil force has always demanded that the innocence of infants be sacrificed, and finds different strategies through the ages to make sure this happens.

7 posted on 10/29/2009 2:29:09 AM PDT by BRK
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To: Nachum

But thank goodness they don’t test on animals!

do they???


8 posted on 10/29/2009 6:09:23 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Nachum

Oh dear. It’s so upsetting when somebody goes so far overboard and gets it wrong. This just creates credibility problems.


9 posted on 10/29/2009 8:45:40 AM PDT by Viking Ski Bum
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To: GnuHere

Oddly enough!


10 posted on 10/29/2009 8:48:17 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: wagglebee; narses

More death culture!


11 posted on 10/29/2009 8:49:35 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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12 posted on 10/29/2009 9:04:17 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Can’t wait to see all the lefty cosmetics protestors start banging down the doors of this company like they do for those who test on animals... [Don’t worry, I’m not holding my breath]

Just so I have my facts straight on this — they are not STILL harvesting cells from embryos, correct? All the harvesting went on during the “perfection” period for the protein if I read the article correctly. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that ANY of this is morally right! I’m just saying they are not STILL using MORE embryos, right? It’s not like (and I know this is a crude way to put it) but it’s not like there’s a baby in every bottle, right? I just think people ought to be really clear about this because if I hadn’t read the whole article, I would still be under the assumption that this was an ongoing “harvest”...

As I said, it doesn’t excuse their actions - this is horrifying, really. Can you imagine finding out the skin creme you use every night was created using an embryo (even if it was only ONE - which I honestly HIGHLY doubt... It takes YEARS sometimes to produce new beauty products, and with something like this I can only imagine it took at LEAST as long, if not longer for them to get the proteins in a form they could use)?


13 posted on 10/29/2009 9:39:15 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks

I added the names of the products from the article to the keywords.


14 posted on 10/29/2009 9:42:09 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks

I found an article in Experimental Gerontology (20 Nov. 2008) which notes under ‘Materials and Methods’ that some years ago (not specifically stated), a male fetus in Switzerland that was not viable to be carried to term was aborted. The family agreed to a tissue donation for medical research. This resulted in a line of cells that produces fetal skin cells which were used to create topical treatments for skin cancer, severe burns, deep puncture wounds and other skin trauma. After time, somebody figured out that same material could be used in skin cream. The original cell line begun with the donated tissue continues producing cells which are what’s used in the product.

Looks like some folks might have gone off half-cocked on this one...


15 posted on 10/29/2009 10:02:08 AM PDT by Viking Ski Bum
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To: Viking Ski Bum

Thanks, that’s what I was thinking was happening after I read the article in full. Still don’t know what to think about this — on the one hand the baby was donated by the family, and as you said according to the doctors the baby could NOT be carried to term (so it wasn’t a “teenager in trouble” type abortion to begin with...). My parents had a stillborn child in 1962 and they donated his body to science so they could figure out what went wrong and hopefully stop other babies from dying in utero. If this is what these parents were thinking — that perhaps some good could come out of their tragedy then it wasn’t malice that created this. As you said, a slew of medical advances were made first, then the cosmetics industry picked up on it...

This is a rough topic, and it’s not as black and white as people seem to feel about it, IMHO. Now, I personally don’t think I could ever use these products after finding out how they were created, but if I had skin cancer, or extensive burns and such as you described I - to be PERFECTLY HONEST - don’t think it would bother me all that much to be treated with those medical ‘products’ if it meant saving my life so I could be around for MY children. Maybe that’s selfish of me, but I’m just being honest...

Thanks for the extra information on this. I appreciate it.


16 posted on 10/29/2009 10:22:01 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks
You bet - my pleasure. It is a difficult question and given the circumstances, the more I think about it the more I think the bomb throwing in this article is, ultimately, counterproductive for us. I was especially struck by this line from the original news release:

“Children of God for Life is calling on rival cosmetic companies to take advantage of some free advertising by their company.”

Talk about exploitation of aborted babies - I just think it's awful to falsely howl about a “slaughtered baby” and then extol the virtues of “free advertising.” Sort of reminds me of that sleazy salesman in the plaid sport coat on on WKRP.

17 posted on 10/29/2009 10:55:01 AM PDT by Viking Ski Bum
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To: Viking Ski Bum

There’s no justification for using ANYTHING resulting from the murder of another person, especially the most innocent and vulnerable of persons.

It’s sick and it’s evil. Period.


18 posted on 10/29/2009 11:03:46 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (I will miss the Internet when it is shut down.)
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To: Nachum

I wouldn’t even take a life saving medication if fetal cells were used......grotesque.....


19 posted on 10/29/2009 12:22:30 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Viking Ski Bum

It would be wonderful if there was some unknown side effect that produced ugly, deep wrinkles or something equally disfiguring.


20 posted on 10/29/2009 3:25:01 PM PDT by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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