Whenever I debate the topic of the proper definition and degree of respect appropriately accorded to human life, I tend to take my opponent’s arguments and extend them in a “What’s Next?” fashion. The response is usually a scoffing dismissal: “Nobody’s going to do that.”
And then they do.
Aborted Fetus Cells Used in Beauty Cream
A San Francisco cosmetics company has ignited an outcry among pro-lifers for including an unexpected ingredient in its anti-aging creams: skin-cell proteins from an aborted fetus.
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, said that although use of aborted fetal parts is indefensible for any purpose, Neocutis’ use for a product as trivial as an anti-aging cream speaks uniquely to current trends and the desire for eternal youth.
The firm’s online entries say the products were “inspired by fetal skin’s unique properties” and that the technology “uses cultured fetal skin cells to obtain an optimal, naturally balanced mixture of skin nutrients.”
“Neocutis means, literally, new skin. And who wouldn’t like to turn back time to create flawless baby skin again?” says one ad.
From the Neocutis website:
Clinically proven to reduce the appearance of facial wrinkles after two months of daily use.
The first and original skin cream formulated with PSP®, [Pretty Small People?] the most complete protein blend of Human Growth Factors, Cytokines and Interleukins available to rejuvenate and soothe skin.
ANTI-AGING
Helps reduce appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Improves skin texture and tone for renewed radiance. Enhances skin firmness.
I need my skin firmness enhanced, dammit, and if someone has to die, them’s the breaks!
When society decides that it is perfectly moral to treat one class of people as objects, there is literally nothing that is off-limits.
I haven’t heard PETA making a stink about this either. While that organization claims that the testing of cosmetics on animals is morally unacceptable, it also believes that “a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” Except when that boy is killed to give wealthy women flawless skin.
h/t Secondhand Smoke
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I cannot believe this is real.
Mike,
I read the Washington Times article. The manufacturer claims they are reproducing the cells based on one donation from a fetus that had to be aborted because it would not survive. Even if that’s true, it is a line I would not cross. And, I don’t understand how they can be sure the boy would not have survived. A very slippery slope.
It’s like cannibalism. There is a world of difference between a stranded plane crash survivor eating a dead fellow passanger and the same survivor killing a fellow passanger in order to eat him. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still find the first case repugnant. The second we don’t have that reaction, we’ve lost something of what makes us human.
That is just friggen disgusting. I use Oil of Olay and have been since I was 15…its not that expensive..maybe its just me but there is a certain point where a fancy name and words are the things you are paying for and as for using humans as objects for a beauty regime? Get a face lift…I need a shower now.
Good advice, “get a face lift” or if I might add to that: accept reality and age gracefully.
That’s just sick.
This reminds me of the Chinese horror film Dumplings, which was part of the “Three Extremes” trilogy that came out a few years back. It’s disgusting and creepy, but in its own way, it’s probably the most pro-life film I’ve ever seen. The plot involves an aging woman who eats dumplings made of human embryos after she discovers that they prolong her youth and beauty. Disturbing enough, but the film goes even further than that, and implicates women who have abortions in the same kind of narcisstic evil.
I won’t give away the ending, in case you ever see it, but I agree with Roger Ebert that “the movie’s closing image is depraved on a scale that might have shocked the surrealists.” Needless to say, any Planned Parenthood employee or embryonic stem cell research supporter who sees it will not be happy.
+JMJ+
Thanks for letting us know about this, Jimmy. I think it’s a sign of our age that the Horror genre is possibly our best vehicle for Culture of Life messages.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
Whats next? Lampshades made of tattooed human skin?
The Nazis and Ed Gein already did that, Sid.
How much you wanna bet our own Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Nancy Pelosi uses this crap.
Nan probably has her own Marin County abortion clinic for direct application.
Drat! I see Stephanie beat me to the Elizabeth Báthory reference. That’s what I get for spending time with the family, I guess.
Come on, RES! It’s in the title!
Titles? Who the #@$! reads titles these days?
Mea culpa; I scrolled past the title and picture too quickly and only caught the title today. Boy, is my face red! Maybe I need to change my moisturizer.