Scientists are now using skin, constructed from cells harvested from aborted children, in an experimental therapy to heal burns. A recent study of the treatment demonstrated the regrowth of essentially normal skin on second- and third-degree burns in about two weeks, according to a Swiss research team.
The researchers have created a bank of fetal skin cells from one four square centimeter piece of skin taken from an unborn baby whose life was ended at 14 weeks.
The researchers built �skin constructs� from the �donated� tissue that were grafted on to burn injuries suffered by eight born children.
Professor Patrick Hohlfeld, who led the team from the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, said "In view of the therapeutic effects of this technique along with the simplicity of application, foetal skin cells could have great potential in tissue engineering."
Interestingly, while some media outlets reported the results as "impressive", Roger W. Yurt, head of the burn center at Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York told the Washington Post, "I can't say whether it's a leap forward before we know how it compares with standard wound care," said .
"Were they helping heal a burn that was going to heal on its own?" asked Gary Purdue, director of the burn center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. "It's good if it helps do that, but it may be only an incremental advance."
Unfortunately, this application is part of a growing market for body parts taken from aborted babies. For example, stem cells from aborted children are currently being used to treat heart disease.
HT: Pro-Life News
Update:
LifeSiteNews.com reports on this story includes the following from Life Dynamics:
The use of aborted baby parts is not new. Body parts of aborted children are highly prized by researchers for a number of different experimental applications including for cosmetic testing. Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, the group that first exposed the practice, says that the abortion industry is developing new methods of killing children so that more of the body is preserved intact so the parts can be more readily re-sold to research firms.Crutcher told LifeSiteNews.com that the logic is inescapable. "Once you cross the line, where you see a child as a commodity, something you can remove if you have the money to do it, then this is a natural extension."
What could be more pro-life than that? If the fetus is going to be aborted anyways and it could be used to help badly burned children insted of just being disposed of than is there really a problem with it?
Not murdering the child to begin with is more pro-life .... Abortion is the murder of the unborn and technologies, such as these, are designed to both exploit the outcome of the murder before it occurs and support the continued practice.