Confirmed Skin cream
contains fetal proteins
Company's
anti-aging products built on cells harvested from aborted baby
Posted: October 28, 2009
10:24 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
We have come to a time when health
products, and certain medications and treatments can contain bits and pieces
from aborted babies – This is as evil as the skin being peeled off the bodies
of dead Jews in Nazi death camps in world war two were used to make lamp shades. Last night a second article came out from
the company in defense of their use of bits and pieces of aborted babies in
their products. We will post only this
article as it provides the name of the product and company which is all that is
needed for futher research if one so desires.
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A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer
whose website openly admits
some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby.
Children of God for Life is a
non-profit organization focused on the bioethics of embryonic tissue use in
medicine and manufacturing. One of its current campaigns includes petitioning
pharmaceutical companies
to produce safe, effective alternatives to vaccines
derived or cultivated from
aborted fetal tissue.
But the organization's attention has now turned Neocutis, a company with
offices in
"It is absolutely deplorable that Neocutis would resort
to exploiting the remains of a deliberately slaughtered baby for nothing other
than pure vanity and financial gain," said Debi Vinnedge, executive
director of Children of God for Life, in a statement. "There is simply no
moral justification for this."
The website for Neocutis, which is privately held with estimated annual
sales of in excess of $2 million, explains that its research began years ago,
when scientists discovered fetal skin's unusual ability to heal without
scarring. Scientists at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, then
created a process to extract proteins from fetal cells in the attempt to obtain
an optimal, naturally balanced mixture of nutrients.
The scientists then infused those nutrients into a line of cosmeceutical
anti-aging products: Neocutis skin cream, Journée day cream, Lumière eye cream
and Bio-Gel bio-restorative hydrogel – products Vinnedge is advising women to
throw in the garbage before contacting
Neocutis to voice their concerns.
"There is absolutely no reason to use aborted babies for such selfish
motives," Vinnedge said. "It is anti-life, anti-woman and
counter-productive, as Neocutis is about to find out!"
Children of God for Life boasts that it has been a
watchdog on pharmaceutical companies using aborted fetal cell lines in medical
products and has received thousands of inquiries from the public on the use of
aborted fetal material in cosmetics. But this is the first time, the
organization says, that any company was bold enough to put the information
right on its own website and in product literature.
In fact, the Neocutis
website openly explains the history of its PSP ingredient:
"A small biopsy of fetal skin
was donated following a
one-time medical termination," the website states, "and a dedicated
cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments. Originally
established for wound healing and burn treatments, today this same cell bank
also provides a lasting supply of cells for producing Neocutis' proprietary
skin care ingredient Processed Skin Cell Proteins."
The company adds, "No additional fetal biopsies will ever be
required."
But Children of God for Life finds little consolation in the company's
statement.
"You note in your literature that 'no further fetal biopsies will be
needed,' as though the life of the one child you have exploited has no
value," wrote the organization in a letter to Neocutis' CEO.
"It is deplorable that you would attempt to mollify the public and
whitewash your badly tarnished image so thoughtlessly."
Vinnedge also told WND that companies aren't required to disclose their
research history to the public, so there may be facts conveniently omitted from
the Neocutis story.
"What we don't know is how many other fetuses were involved before they
perfected that one cell line," she surmised. "There's a possibility
there were more."
WND contacted Neocutis repeatedly for comment, but phone
messages
were not returned. A Businessweek web report says the company was founded in
2003 and its directors were
identified as Frederic-Edouard Koehn, Patrick Hohlfeld, Diego Braguglia and
Jennifer Pearson.
Children of God for Life, however, is actively calling for a boycott of all
Neocutis products, beginning a campaign to contact the company's investors and
even offering free publicity to companies that will certify in writing their products
are free from ingredients derived from aborted babies.
"We know there are companies using moral sources for collagen and skin
proteins," Vinnedge said. "We intend to publicly promote these other
cosmetic companies competing with Neocutis that are willing to step forward and
contact us."