I've been going back and forth on this, I try to write about stem cell stuff, but I have no idea who the websites are that are pushing this story so I was leery of it. But I found this page, apparently the Neocutis web page, and they have a "defense", so I'm running with it.
From the first link:

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.

So I guess killing babies to get stem cells has produced a breakthrough.
It's not fixing Parkinson's disease but it is incredibly horrible, so it has that going for it.

The "defense" link from Neocutis above says they don't use the original stem cells, they use cultures grown from them, so that makes it all better I guess.

The small skin donation that, ultimately, made the development of our treatment possible originated from a single terminated pregnancy that could not survive to term and was deemed medically necessary by the attending physicians. This voluntary donation to medical research was granted by the parents with their written consent, and was performed in adherence with strict Swiss laws that regulate organ donations and similar procedures.

As long as it's second hand, it's okay to use dead babies to give aging baby boomers smooth skin.

I would rate that pretty high on the "despicable" scale, and I've become pretty jaded the last few years.

Preemptive "The baby was aborted anyway" response.

Yes the baby was aborted anyway, but.....
When I worked at KFC they wouldn't let us take home the leftover chicken at the end of the night, it was counted and tossed. I asked why once, the manager told me because the owner figured we would start making too much so we could take it home.
She was right, I even thought of it while I was asking.

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