Unborn babies sacrificed for vanity

As if the slaughter of the unborn isn't bad enough in general, now it's taking an even more heinous twist. Babies are being harvested from the womb to satisfy the vanity and pride (the devil's favorite sin) of the rich who want eternal youth. According to many reports floating around on the internet lately, foreign clinics are paying women from underdeveloped nations to carry their children to almost full-term then have them aborted. The clinics then buy the dead babies to use their tissue in cosmetic injections, as the story goes, to prevent or correct wrinkled faces in rich people from around the world.

Supposedly the latest story on this comes from the London Daily Mail; however, on searching that site including their archives, no such story exists. Doing more research turned up a report about a similar situation--which apparently has been quoted in the current blogs, etc.--uncovered a few years back by Physicians For Life, which, although not recent, is now being quoted widely. The Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in Barbados, had been reportedly buying these killed-for-money babies' bodies from the Ukraine (note: these babies were reportedly first-trimester), for the purpose of using their tissue in stem-cell cosmetic injections. I looked up this institution and found the following link (http://stemcellbiology.blogspot.com/2007/12/stemcells-institute-of-regenerative.html) which claims the business is no longer doing this procedure having been exposed by a BBC production in December 2006. The TV report apparently showed videos demonstrating the harvesting of tissue from the babies as well as the subsequent applications.

If one clinic was performing such gruesome tasks, it is not unlikely that such operations are still being carried out elsewhere. Consumers wishing to purchase ethically-produced cosmetics would be well-advised to research the ingredients and sources of such items first. I intend to do more searching myself to find out if this ghastly act is still being carried on, and where, and by which companies. Many people of good conscience decry the fact that animal-testing is routine with many cosmetic manufacturers, but how many even realize that human lives are being butchered for the actual ingredients of some goods? First it was vaccines, now mere beauty (so-called) products. How low can our species sink?