Sick.
This is just gruesome.
A skincare company has started using aborted fetal tissue in its anti-aging skincare cream.
Christian News Wire reported:
Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams.
“It is absolutely deplorable that Neocutis would resort to exploiting the remains of a deliberately slaughtered baby for nothing other than pure vanity and financial gain,” stated Executive Director Debi Vinnedge. “There is simply no moral justification for this.”
For years Children of God for Life has been a watchdog on pharmaceutical companies using aborted fetal cell lines in medical products and they have received thousands of inquiries from the public on the use of aborted fetal material in cosmetics.
Until now, this was the first time they have encountered any company bold enough to put the information right on their own website and product literature. A quick investigation into the science behind the products revealed the shameless data.
Neocutis’ key ingredient known as “Processed Skin Proteins” was developed at the University of Luasanne from the skin tissue of a 14-week gestation electively-aborted male baby donated by the University Hospital in Switzerland. Subsequently, a working cell bank was established, containing several billion cultured skin cells to produce the human growth factor needed to restore aging skin. The list of products using the cell line include: Bio-Gel, Journee, Bio-Serum, Prevedem, Bio Restorative Skin Cream and Lumiere. But Vinnedge is calling for a full boycott of all Neocutis products, regardless of their source.
“There is absolutely no reason to use aborted babies for such selfish motives,” Vinnedge said. “It is anti-life, anti-woman and counter-productive as Neocutis is about to find out!”
Sure enough.
Neocutis describes their Processed Skin Cell Proteins (PCP) used in their anti-aging creams on their website:
From the website:
Through years of research, physicians discovered fetal skin has a unique ability to heal wounds without scarring. Inspired by this, medical researchers at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland created a biotechnology process to extract the rich proteins responsible for scarless wound healing from cultured fetal skin cells. A small biopsy of fetal skin was donated following a one-time medical termination and a dedicated cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments.
How awful.
October 28th, 2009 | 11:46 am | #1
I would rather my skin look like an alligators hide than touch that!
October 28th, 2009 | 12:02 pm | #2
Newest edition of punked!
October 28th, 2009 | 12:07 pm | #3
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October 28th, 2009 | 12:08 pm | #4
Eternal judgment and justice draws nigh.
October 28th, 2009 | 12:08 pm | #5
Obama supporters
October 28th, 2009 | 12:13 pm | #6
Disgusting!
October 28th, 2009 | 12:19 pm | #7
What has society come to? This is sickening and evil.
October 28th, 2009 | 12:20 pm | #8
[...] Welcome to liberal America. How sick. Everyday I wonder have I seen the lowest, sickest things i’ll ever see when it comes from liberals whether its their attacks on people, saying dog and cats should traded for eatable animals, renaming holidays like Halloween or Xmas because it offends them. Then today this comes along. A skincare company NeoCutis is now using aborted fetal tissue in its anti-aging skincare cream. Christian News Wire has the word on these gruesome details: Children of God for Life announced today that Neocutis, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on dermatology and skin care is using aborted fetal cell lines to produce several of their anti-aging skin creams. [...]
October 28th, 2009 | 12:32 pm | #9
There’s a great short story by F Paul Wilson that predicts that purse companies will begin to make purses out of fetal skin and call Foetal skin. Afterall, they’re not REALLY babies. Morbid, but how long til it actually happens?
October 28th, 2009 | 12:41 pm | #10
Look, I support a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy until she’d done paying for the fartling’s college tuition, s/he’s truly out of the house (including the basement) and the cord is cut for good… But this is a whole new level of gruesomeness, reminiscent of Elizabeth Bathory. Stem Cell research for genuine medical benefit using tissue aborted fetuses is one thing (and I’m not convinced that it’s going to amount to the cure-all that its advocates boast) but this is just sick, even if it was from a donation of a single cell. (Hell, I’d be creeped out if it was taken off an alive-and-well Cheryl Tiegs’ bottom).
October 28th, 2009 | 12:43 pm | #11
If you can find something “good” of abortion…and this must be “good”, it heals….it makes those who abort babies feel justified for what they do. Stem cell research is only there to make these people feel better about what they do, especially when adult stem cells have been the only research that has been successful. Deep within their souls they know what they are doing is wrong.
October 28th, 2009 | 12:58 pm | #12
It had to be a biopsy of living cells, isn’t that right?
Kept the aborted kid alive long enough to harvest his cells.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:05 pm | #13
Abortion is a woman’s right.
It says so right in the Constitution, right next to Affirmative Action and the ban on God.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:08 pm | #14
People condemed the Germans for making lampshades from the tatooed skin of murdered Jews and Gypsies, yet this product is allowed to be sold? How depraved are we? Can we possibly sink any lower?
October 28th, 2009 | 1:08 pm | #15
Just a matter of time before someone takes some cultured fetal tissue and puts it into a protein powder drink and calls it the new miracle rejuvenation drink. Could be a fantastic hit. Watch who drinks that stuff and choose your friends accordingly.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:18 pm | #16
Soylent Green.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:33 pm | #17
Makes one wonder what ELSE the abortion clinics are doing with the bodies.
No one mentions to mothers who’ve just delivered their babies that their placentas are cash commodities, either.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:37 pm | #18
Gini
October 28th, 2009 | 1:08 pm | #14
…yet this product is allowed to be sold? How depraved are we? Can we possibly sink any lower?
………………………….
Here fixed it:
“How depraved are THEY? Can THEY possibly sink any lower?”
Answer, yeah, they can. Alas.
But “WE” don’t have to go along with it.
October 28th, 2009 | 1:38 pm | #19
“It had to be a biopsy of living cells, isn’t that right?”
No. A single 4 square centimeter post-mortem donation. 14 wk gestation. Abortion and research performed independently.
The resulting cell line primarily used to help burn victims heal.
PMID: 16139659
October 28th, 2009 | 1:46 pm | #20
I’m pretty sure this is nothing new.
this company uses foreskins from circumcisions
http://www.nydailynews.com/…/2008-11-18_vavelta_may_be_the_new_wave_in_antiaging.html
October 28th, 2009 | 2:01 pm | #21
This almost feels like a kind of cannibalism. (“Soylent Green” is right.) Isn’t this nice? Now you can look younger by rubbing dead babies all over your face.
October 28th, 2009 | 2:15 pm | #22
Interesting how they stress it was a one time donated “termination,” because of course it is ok if you only kill someone and then use their skin once.
October 28th, 2009 | 2:18 pm | #23
I think we’re missing the important question here: does the stuff work? I’m pretty sure the aborted fetus the skin was taken from won’t be needing it anyway.
October 28th, 2009 | 2:24 pm | #24
This is truly sick…
October 28th, 2009 | 2:38 pm | #25
The fraudulent bargain we are presented with today, mostly by government is that we can live at the expense of others if only we would allow them to live at our expense.
The next level of this collective predation will be if life-saving medical technology depends upon harvesting cells from aborted fetuses, especially when such research or treatment is funded by government.
Not even Orwell could have imagined this.
October 28th, 2009 | 2:41 pm | #26
I know what I’m getting my wife for the holidays! Thanks for the hot tip GP!!
October 28th, 2009 | 2:58 pm | #27
#26 Wow. You must sleep like a baby at night.
October 28th, 2009 | 3:12 pm | #28
I guess this is the stuff Pelosi uses to make herself look so youthful!
October 28th, 2009 | 3:26 pm | #29
obviously, this in right up to and maybe over the line…if it creates a market for tissue and subsequently increases abortions, then it’s potentially a real big problem…after the cell culture is established, and the growth hormone source is productive and stable, there might not be any resultant increase in abortions…what seems more of a problem is efficacy, that is, how to get a good effect topically.
October 28th, 2009 | 3:57 pm | #30
Joe
October 28th, 2009 | 2:41 pm | #26
I know what I’m getting my wife for the holidays! Thanks for the hot tip GP!!
NeoCutis skin cream works on inflatable plastic? Who knew?
October 28th, 2009 | 4:13 pm | #31
this is so sickening I had to tweet it right away as I bet very few people know about this horrible business!
Glad to keep my wrinkles wrinkly!
October 28th, 2009 | 4:36 pm | #32
For scientific research I have no problems with it (same with experiments on animals.)
But for the vanity of some people?
No. No. No. NO!
October 28th, 2009 | 4:52 pm | #33
What do you want to bet the people who get their panties in a wad about products tested on animals think this is no big deal?
October 28th, 2009 | 4:52 pm | #34
following a one-time medical termination
One-time medical termination? You mean that poor murdered baby won’t have to go through that “medical termination” more than once? How humane. Bastards.
October 28th, 2009 | 4:57 pm | #35
Dr. Tiller wasn’t murdered, he was just subjected to a “one-time medical termination.”
October 28th, 2009 | 5:02 pm | #36
Man.
God is so pissed right now.
Woe is us.
October 28th, 2009 | 5:10 pm | #37
The first time they tried to terminate Tiller he survived.
October 28th, 2009 | 5:20 pm | #38
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October 28th, 2009 | 6:27 pm | #39
Does anyone know if this company is looking for investors? The aborted fetus industry sounds interesting… could stimulate some job growth.
October 28th, 2009 | 6:41 pm | #40
And we wonder why we are in such a pathetically debased state!
psssssst….wonder how we got here? Those 10 Commandments given on Mt Sinai…they were not 10 suggestions.
October 28th, 2009 | 6:53 pm | #41
Wasn’t it a “christian” who sent our young men in to Iraq to murder for his own greed and idealism? Don’t tell me that you people are the “Defenders of the 10 commandments”.
I personally do NOT want a bunch of unwanted, uncared for children being raised by unfit mothers. Abortion makes it possible for “sinners” to still have the same chance as everyone else at a “normal” life. Not to mention saves an unwanted “accident” from a miserable upbringing. Sure there are exceptions for everything… but it, without question, should be a WOMAN’S CHOICE. Not a religous zealot’s choice.
October 28th, 2009 | 7:53 pm | #42
Yay Joe, You said it boy…. Yes, because you have “seen” the light, you can accuse every religious organization, every religious person with a spine. You are intelligent and you can obviously rationalize, you have deductive thinking and every one else is below you. What in the name of God do these people understand about raising fit children like you can. Yes, the world is absolutely clueless and you have found the “true” answers. If only these religious zealots would just understand once and for all ha?
Have you read some books recently Joe? I would suggest that you start with the Bible. New Testament maybe?, and then some stories about some Saints’ lives. Maybe some Churchill, let me know when you’re done. I’ll suggest some more.
Please, keep YOUR redundant and FALSE accusations to yourself.
October 28th, 2009 | 7:58 pm | #43
So they found the real fountain of youth!
October 28th, 2009 | 8:43 pm | #44
If they want to use fetal tissue to cure diseases, fine. But facial cream? Come on. I’ll stick with Noxzema.
October 28th, 2009 | 8:49 pm | #45
I’ve adopted and raised two “unwanted accidents” from foster care, and am currently working on another adoption.
From the bottom of my heart, f^^^ you, Joe. F^^^ you and all you selfish, pro-abortion bastards.
October 28th, 2009 | 8:50 pm | #46
I’ve adopted and raised two “unwanted accidents” from foster care, and am currently working on another adoption.
From the bottom of my heart, f-ck you, Joe. F-ck you and all you selfish, pro-abortion bastards.
October 28th, 2009 | 8:54 pm | #47
Joe, you piece of sh*t. My name is John Taylor and I live in Belleville, IL…right across the river from GP. Why don’t you come see me and we can discuss your point of view face to face? I can assure you that when/if you walk away, you will have a newfound respect for human life.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:19 pm | #48
it can’t be cannibalism cuz it’s a fetus not a human…
this is straight outta south park.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:22 pm | #49
Positively vile. I went to the web site (because I couldn’t believe that this wasn’t some kind of sick, techno-geek joke), and I couldn’t even finish reading the first paragraph. I have four beautiful grandsons (three here, one gone home to Jesus an hour after he was born), and it makes me nauseous to think that someone could do this, invent this dreadful stuff, in the name of vanity.
I will be furiously praying for these mad scientists…
October 28th, 2009 | 9:26 pm | #50
Wait a minute…if it’s just a non-human, non-entity, how can it have a gender? Doesn’t that make him a HIM? Hmmmm. Oh well, I’m sure that if “he” were here, he would want to be “terminated” and then have his skin cells cultured so that wealthy strangers could use those cells to look hotter and sexier. In fact, I’m sure he would view it as the reason why God created him in the first place. Life is so over-rated, anyway. It’s good to focus on what’s important: lookin’ good and makin’ bank.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:28 pm | #51
#41
D*mn, Joe – don’t know what hole you slithered out of, but how ’bout slithering back in, ‘k?
October 28th, 2009 | 9:37 pm | #52
In a communist China and during the Great Leap Forward the commies made people to cook aborted and still-born children to rags and use thus cooked brew for a fertiliser.
Now it is clear where those subhuman, genocidal and promoted by Leftoids (leftist, sub-human robots) came from…
October 28th, 2009 | 9:39 pm | #53
“Wasn’t it a “christian” who sent our young men in to Iraq to murder for his own greed and idealism? Don’t tell me that you people are the “Defenders of the 10 commandments”.”
No, that’s just a strawman you decided to beat up to support your disgusting viewpoint.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:39 pm | #54
Joe: “Not to mention saves an unwanted ‘accident’ from a miserable upbringing.”
That a human being dies in the process doesn’t strike you as skeevy at all, Joe?
adam: “it can’t be cannibalism cuz it’s a fetus not a human…”
Let us know when you enter the seventh grade. So many scientific discoveries await you!
October 28th, 2009 | 9:43 pm | #55
The Lord will deal harshly with the people who conceive such monstrosities, and also with those who defend them.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:45 pm | #56
Oh, and this gem from Joe:
“I personally do NOT want a bunch of unwanted, uncared for children being raised by unfit mothers.”
Sounds like he’s slipped and given away some of his personal history. Almost makes me feel sorry for the mendacious twit… almost.
October 28th, 2009 | 9:45 pm | #57
To Jim Hoft: Sorry about my extreme comment a little while ago but ol’ Joe managed to flip the right switch. I usually have more self-control. I know the lefties love to use this kind of remark to prove we Cons are all violent, gun-toting, Christianist, fringe psycho-killers. But I’d still have a chat with the lad in question.
October 28th, 2009 | 10:10 pm | #58
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October 28th, 2009 | 10:12 pm | #59
“It had to be a biopsy of living cells, isn’t that right?”
No. A single 4 square centimeter post-mortem donation. 14 wk gestation. Abortion and research performed independently.
The resulting cell line primarily used to help burn victims heal.
PMID: 16139659
…………
Nice try.
The cells are alive. One cannot produce a “dedicated cell bank” from dead cells. And from an infant at the size of 14 weeks gestation, a “single 4 cm square” is quite the chunk of flesh.
Disgusting.
October 28th, 2009 | 10:26 pm | #60
“Through years of research, physicians discovered fetuses have a unique ability to develop into real people.”
All this science and technology and these over-educated creeps are worse than primitive cave men, who valued their children. The cave men couldn’t see the developing child, but these “scientists” can put a camera into the uterus and watch every minute of human growth, then colder than sharks, rip the child out and carve him up for face cream.
October 28th, 2009 | 10:30 pm | #61
There was a prostitute who was pregnant. She was told that because of her venerial desease she would have to abort the child. Besides she would not be able to care for him. The prostitute refused to abort the child. The childs name was Beethoven. I have cried over the monstrosity Obama is and his stand on abortion, but I have come to realize that God will judge in a most harsh manner these people. Do not be deceived there is a time of judgement. May God have mercy on us.
October 28th, 2009 | 11:21 pm | #62
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October 29th, 2009 | 1:03 am | #63
Come on… where are all these happy singing zealots coming from? …
There was an abortion an instead of being thrown away with the rest of biological waste, a sample was taken and given to a university to do skin research. This was probably done to help people with extreme conditions (people burnt in the hell of war, perhaps?) and as a side effect somebody noticed it could also work with relatively healthy skin…
Do you really believe they would have fetus farms in Switzerland? for those of you who have never left the farm, people live way better over there (on average) than in the US of America. They don’t send 18 year old kids to die (and kill) in some weird country and they basically mind their own business and try to live as peaceful as they possible.
Is it the first time researchers use corpses to learn more about ourselves?… what about medicine schools, do you seriously believe all the practice is made with rubber toys? …
I guess you also like your steak well done and buy tshirts made by kids in China or Bangladesh… it’s so easy to judge, specially using these tubes the internet is made of…
“Why do you notice the wood chip in the eye of someone else, but you do not consider the wooden beam in your eye?”
and don’t even bother: I’m catholic and I have read the bible (yes, all of it… even if it was many years ago).
October 29th, 2009 | 1:38 am | #64
Joe, you don’t understand that not everyone here is a Christian. I’m not a Christian, nor am I conservative. But I find myself agreeing with some of the things they say. I used to be a left liberal, some time ago. Then I opened my eyes and realized that left-wing ideas are bringing my own country closer to destruction every day.
It should be the woman’s choice? Oh please, spare me the dribble. There are medical conditions and some situations where abortion is an alternative. Yes, no doubt. But most abortions are the “OH SHIT! I’M PREGNANT!” panic button. Why should I respect that? Why should I respect people being too stupid? There are ways to prevent pregnancies in the first place. One is: not letting every idiot into your panties, girls. Just like not trying to get into the panties of everything female, boys. It starts there. Then there are condoms and other ways.
A woman’s choice shouldn’t really be being dumb.
October 29th, 2009 | 5:00 am | #65
Soylent Green,,,is made,,,of people? Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!!!!!!!
This comes from the same over educated idiots who decided to feed cows ground up cow parts, and gave the world Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Thanks, a$$holes.
October 29th, 2009 | 5:19 am | #66
This was probably done to help people with extreme conditions
Just like Josef Mengele’s “research.” Once you define a class of people as “sub-human,” you can do whatever you want with them. Got it.
October 29th, 2009 | 5:32 am | #67
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October 29th, 2009 | 5:34 am | #68
“I personally do NOT want a bunch of unwanted, uncared for children being raised by unfit mothers.”
Right, Joey Lynn – I mean, look what an unfit mother did with you.
October 29th, 2009 | 5:47 am | #69
Did any of you ever had any doubts that that maybe one of the underlying reasons why “celebrities” support abortion and stem cells research? How do they get their dirty hands on human growth hormone to look 10-20 years younger then they are? It doesn’t grow on trees.
October 29th, 2009 | 6:01 am | #70
@Andres
“Do you really believe they would have fetus farms in Switzerland?”
Why not? This country become liberal (sorry – progressive) before many of us were born. But I have better question. Did you ever hear of CHINA? If they execute prisoners based on need for particular body organ (and blood type) why wouldn’t they have organ banks from aborted babies? Don’t forget they have forced abortion laws because the families there can only have one child. So there must be plenty of “biological waste” lying around. Don’t you love this substitution, “biological waste”, for murdered babies?
October 29th, 2009 | 6:54 am | #71
“Do you really believe they would have fetus farms in Switzerland?”
From the progressive point of view, would there be any problem with that? I mean, you guys have decided that fetuses aren’t really people. So, why not grow fetuses just for organ harvesting? Is it really any worse than partial birth abortion …. I mean, to you guys without souls?
October 29th, 2009 | 7:46 am | #72
Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
When our authority figures allow abortion which is murder, you can not tell me that they are not wicked. They call good evil and evil good.
October 29th, 2009 | 7:54 am | #73
Joe (#41) said, “I personally do NOT want a bunch of unwanted, uncared for children being raised by unfit mothers.” An estimated 2 million couples in this country would love to adopt “unwanted” babies.
Joe said that abortion should be “a woman’s choice” — six out of every 10 mothers who abort their babies have been pressured or forced to do so (usually by the baby’s father, but often by her own parents). Murder is one of the leading causes, and sometimes the leading cause, of death for pregnant mothers. Even “safe, legal” abortions can kill women: Google “Synthia Dennard” and “Lou Ann Herron” to read about two who died at the hands of “safe, legal” abortionists.
Joe, I believe that every mother deserves better than abortion, and that every child deserves a chance. Why don’t you?
October 29th, 2009 | 9:32 am | #74
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October 29th, 2009 | 9:56 am | #75
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October 29th, 2009 | 10:51 am | #76
Funny, but I’ll bet the same people that scream that Dick Cheney drinks the blood of (add your ethnic group here) are the ones who extol the virtues of face cream made from abortions AND SEE NO PROBLEM WITH EITHER VIEW.
October 29th, 2009 | 11:18 am | #77
gus, just because the gov’t “bans” God does not mean He does not exist and that justice will not be brought to those babies!
October 29th, 2009 | 11:43 am | #78
I see the blood dripping from the infanticidal fangs of every Democrat who supports abortion on demand!
October 29th, 2009 | 2:45 pm | #79
Andres posted “Is it the first time researchers use corpses to learn more about ourselves?… what about medicine schools, do you seriously believe all the practice is made with rubber toys? …”
Clearly English is not your first language. When medical schools dissect corpses in anatomy class, the bodies were not obtained through murder. The baby whose skin is being used for vanity was murdered.
October 29th, 2009 | 3:05 pm | #80
Quoted from and linked to at:
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME…
October 29th, 2009 | 6:07 pm | #81
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October 30th, 2009 | 10:54 am | #82
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November 1st, 2009 | 10:40 am | #83
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November 2nd, 2009 | 10:44 am | #84
wanumba asked, “It had to be a biopsy of living cells, isn’t that right?”
coeruleus is wrong, unless cell lines can be cultured from reanimated tissue a ‘la Dr. Frankenstein. Even when a person is declared dead, most of their tissues are still living.
Such is the case with fetuses and embryos as well — they are dead the moment they are dismembered or pulled from the womb (or will be shortly thereafter — a drop onto the lab floor assures that…), but the little arms and feet etc. live on for a bit thereafter.
It’s all in the timing — like with organ donations, you have to work fast to get the still living organs from the dead person.
Given the timing, I’d say that the abortion and the research are closely linked.
November 5th, 2009 | 1:49 pm | #85
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