The Observer | International | Beauty salons fuel trade in aborted babies

Hat Tip: WorldNetDaily, although I also caught a reference to the Observer article in LifeSite of Canada.

What prompted the Observer article was a recent arrest at a railway checkpoint on the Russian-Ukraine border. Police confiscated the frozen remains of twenty-five aborted babies and arrested the man they caught trying to smuggle them into Russia. Why is he doing this? To prepare an injectable "youth serum" of some kind.

To be fair, law-enforcement authorities and hospital officials in Russia and the Ukraine are horrified and disgusted with the situation. And indeed it would almost make you laugh if it did not at the same time make you cry and shudder. Joseph Farah likens it to a horror movie, and I agree--a quite cheap horror movie, the sort of ketchup-spill and splatter drama that Hammer Films used to make. How anyone could believe that a woman could recapture her lost youth by taking an injection of processed tissue from a dead baby is beyond my comprehension. What kind of sick, perverted quackery is this?

But what troubles me the most is not that a bunch of women are paying up to about $20,000 US for a treatment that does no good and might even give them AIDS, or worse. What really makes me shudder is that anyone would actually go so far as to pay women (up to about $200 US) to have abortions and surrender their dead babies in the belief that one could turn those dead babies into a beauty treatment, or persuade others that such a treatment would be effective. What happens when someone discovers that he can derive a therapy from the use of aborted children? That will open the floodgates, sportsfans. We already see it with the debate on embryonic stem-cell research. Rush Limbaugh had people calling in to his program, insisting that the President was standing in their way of freeing themselves or their loved ones from Parkinsonism, diabetes mellitus, et cetera. (Never mind that all the ESC's have ever done so far is to give cancer to rats, while adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells are safe and effective in healing people of a wide variety of ills.) If you want to know what's the difference--it's only a difference of degree, and a matter of time.