The Killing Continues
Wired is running a small news spot (on the Wired Blog) about “[n]ewborn babies [who] may have been stolen from mothers in Russian maternity clinics only to be harvested for their stem cells.” The article is brief and just says that evidence has been handed over to the authorities. It seems those who spent so much time decrying the slippery slope argument against fetal stem cell research are now silent. If the evidence is conclusive, the perpetrators should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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The BBC is also carrying the story with a more vivid description of the findings:
“Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.”
“Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.”
“There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.”
“But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.”
WTF!!!