Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

The slippery slope of abortion…beyond words….

by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 8, 2006

London,
England (LifeNews.com) — Women from around the world are traveling
to clinics in various locations that are now offering face lifts and
cosmetic surgery using tissue from babies who have been killed by abortions.

Pro-life advocates are strongly condemning the practice and saying the
taking of human life is never warranted — especially for such a self-serving
purpose.

Women
like Susan Barrington, a 52-year-old housewife from England, are heading
to places such as Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Moscow and Rotterdam
to obtain the treatments.

She
has been given the final go-ahead form a local clinic to travel abroad
for the treatment that promises to make her look 10 years younger
and doesn't mind that lives have been sacrificed to enhance her beauty.

To
produce the treatments, clinics are using tissue from babies killed
in abortions from 6 to 12 weeks into pregnancy and stem cells obtained
from destroying human embryos to inject into a client's face. The
fetal cells then begin a supposed rejuvenation process that makes
the skin look younger.

To
obtain the cells, women in underdeveloped nations are paid up to $200
dollars to carry a baby up to the optimum eight to 12 week period
when the fetuses are “harvested” for their stem cells which are then
sold to exclusive cosmetic clinics.

Both
pro-life advocates and scientists who favor stem cell research are
upset by the promotion of these injections.

UK
stem-cell researcher Colin Blakemore told the London Daily Mail newspaper
that the therapies are "highly experimental" and risk damaging
the reputation of legitimate stem cell researchers.

He
also complained that these clinics were located in tourist destinations
and unregulated by any international body.

"And
if anything goes wrong afterwards, it is hushed up to prevent damage
to the business," he told the newspaper.

In
a statement given to LifeNews.com, Concerned Women for America condemned
scientists for using tissue from abortions and embryonic stem cells
for the treatments.

“This
fad illustrates the extremes to which embryonic stem cell use can
lead," CWA senior fellow, Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, said. “It is
hard to believe that such atrocities are going on today."

"The
ethical and moral ramifications of such treatments are staggering;
the experimental aspects are equally troubling," Crouse explained.

"Not
only is the origin of the fetuses immoral and inhumane; there are
medical problems and complications associated with the injections,"
Crouse concluded. "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.”

Some
of the clinics include the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in
Barbados where injections are done using tissue from aborted babies.
The clinic is located in the luxurious Villa Nova hotel, where American
and Russian scientists have targeted upper class British and American
women.

More
than 50 clinics exist in Moscow, the Russian capital, including the
Cellulite Clinic. There, cells from a wide range of sources including
aborted babies and human embryos are used.