This sounds like an episode of Absolutely Fabulous. Rich fifty-something woman goes to a foreign country to get a stem-cell treatment (using embryonic stem cells) to rejuvenate her skin. She doesn't care where the cells are from, as long as she looks good. Bleech.
Despite criticism from Church leaders and religious groups on the Island, Barnett Suskind, chief executive of IRM, is unapologetic about the treatment he carries out. 'It is the most natural form of healing there is - in ten years, everyone will be doing this,' he says. 'You think better, sleep better, and look better. Your quality of life improves and your libido certainly improves.' The reality: 'The science behind the treatments on offer at IRM is based on the theory that stem cells from aborted foetuses may search out damaged and dead cells in the body and work to repair and replace them,' says Dr Stephen Minger, director of stem cell biology at King's College, London.
Yeah, who cares if a little baby had to die for it.
Here's an ugly little tidbit from Ukraine:
Here, poverty-stricken young women are paid 200 U.S. dollars to carry babies up to the optimum eight to 12-week period - thought to be best for harvesting stem cells. They are then sold on to cosmetic clinics.
That's called fetal farming. Kinda sick if you ask me.
H/T : SecondHand Smoke
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