Aborted Fetal
Material Used in Anti-Wrinkle Creams
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.
"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," stated Executive Director Debi
Vinnedge. "There is simply no moral justification for this."
For years Children of God for Life has been a watchdog on
pharmaceutical companies using aborted fetal cell lines in medical
products and they have received thousands of inquiries from the public
on the use of aborted fetal material in cosmetics.
Until now, this was the first time they have encountered any company
bold enough to put the information right on their own website and
product literature. A quick investigation into the science behind
the
products revealed the shameless data.
Neocutis' key ingredient known as "Processed Skin Proteins" was
developed at the University of Luasanne from the skin tissue of a
14-week gestation electively-aborted male baby donated by the
University Hospital in Switzerland. Subsequently, a working cell
bank
was established, containing several billion cultured skin cells to
produce the human growth factor needed to restore aging skin. The list
of products using the cell line include: Bio-Gel, Journee, Bio-Serum,
Prevedem, Bio Restorative Skin Cream and Lumiere. But Vinnedge is
calling for a full boycott of all Neocutis products, regardless of
their source.
"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 is calling on rival cosmetic companies to take
advantage of some free advertising by their company.
"We know there are companies using moral sources for collagen and skin
proteins. We intend to publicly promote these other cosmetic companies
competing with Neocutis that are willing to step forward and contact
us."
Meanwhile Vinnedge advises women who are using Neocutis products to
throw them in the garbage and to contact the company to express their
concerns.
In addition she advised, "Contact some of these competing companies and
ask them to verify their products are morally produced. If they
are
willing to commit to it in writing, they will get our endorsement."
Contact Neocutis:
Neocutis Inc.
3053 Fillmore Street # 140
San Francisco CA 94123
Phone: 1-866-636-2884
Further Information is published at the following links:
infoscience.epfl.ch/record/129015/files/ExpGer-Lee(2009).pdf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17269452
www.neocutis.com/categories.php?catid=11
www.neocutis.com/article.php?sid=15
Source: Children of
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