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.
That will depend on what porn is. Girl on a two wheel bike (charles bronson) was a disturbing but interesting movie and close to porn in its time but tame by today's standards. The same goes for Lolita. A 1980's german rock song "I want to do it with Steffi Graf" was banned in Germany as porn. And as one freeper said about Michelle Wie, "is she old enough for me to think she is hot ?"
god i hope this is not true...this is the most upsetting and repugnant thing i think i have ever read...man oh man...its like something out of a horror movie..
how could you walk around thinking you are beautiful with stem cells from an aborted baby...
i am not a religious man but sweet jesus, this must be a marker for the end of times...
Yeah, things don't much lower...
The Dutch are a VERY, VERY strange crew!
This is junk science at its ultimate extent. Next thing, these stem cells will be calling an alien mother ship for advice on how to take out cancer cells. I think I will start a web page advertising stem cell astrology readings. For fifty bucks, stem cells from the ancient pharaoh Rah will predict your future through a special nano electrode hookup to an D/A AD7524 converter circuit. Yea! That's the ticket!
What do you get when you cross a Dutch with an Irish?
Ans: A kick from a wood shoe with an Irish temper.
What do you get from Dutch stem cells?
Ans: A pus 'n wood boots.
Its a $65,000 film. no body doubles. real 12-year old nudity and simulated rape. molesters will love it, they said she does things in the film that adults would balk at.
This is yet another sign of just how barbaric we westerners have become. We have lost all sense of right and wrong. But God is not mocked, nor will He turn a deaf ear to the cries of these infants. We will pay a high price for this barbaric practice, along with abortion for any reason, and numerous other sins that are now on our "freedom to do..." list.
How obscenely vain and shallow can people be!? This sounds like the plot of a sci-fi film. Knowing this type of practice is taking place makes me almost despair as to where the human race is headed.
Hillary and friends see nothing wrong. Brave new world.
"I t'ot I saw a puddy tat!"
While we all agree that abortion is wrong, it is also just as wrong to use false "propaganda" to define yourself. Especially, when the information you use is tainted with error and speculation. It defeats your purpose, when your credibility is shot.
There is an old adage, that let's more people know about the contents of a womb. As people become more familiar with the developing baby, they get less willing to murder it...
"a picture is worth a thousand words..."
Evil. Disgusting.
Our brave new world.
Oh, man...God forgive us all!
Why's the example of "skin" handbags unreasonable or out of the question in the future? The Nazis made lampshades and soap out of people they murdered.
"Its a $65,000 film. no body doubles. real 12-year old nudity and simulated rape. molesters will love it, they said she does things in the film that adults would balk at."
And this isn't considered kiddie porn because of......??
So if they say the law is 18...?
They'll claim art. Of course the images from the movie of a naked 12-year old getting 'simulated' raped will be all over the internet when it comes out.
I like to think maybe we learned something from those horrors. But I guess not.
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