When I saw the first ad on TV advertising collagen-enriched cosmetics I was speechless. We'll be apologizing to Hitler, I thought; at least he didn't kill for money!
Collagen is the gelatinous substance found in connective tissue, bone and cartilage. Nick Thimmesch's syndicated column, "Our Grisly Human Fetal Industry" documents that amniotic fluid and collagen can come from fetal material, since the Food and Drug Administration does not require pretesting or the identification of cosmetic ingredients.
A glance through a local drug store revealed that the leading 12 shampoos and five hand creams all contained collagen. Check your beauty products and you may be shocked! Unless your beauty product specifies animal collagen or bovine collagen, the product probably contains human collagen. The drug company should be challenged at once. Even collagen taken from a human placenta raises questions about respect of life and ownership of the placenta.
A letter from Mary Kay Cosmetics emphasizes that their collagen all comes from animals. A similar letter from Hask has also been received.
Since there are 1.5 million abortions every year, there is an abundant source of fetuses for commercial use. There's triple profit to be had. The first is from the abortion (estimated at a half billion dollars a year by Fortune magazine). The second profit comes from the sale of aborted babies' bodies. The third profit is from unsuspecting customers buying cosmetics.
Babies' bodies are sold by the bag, $25 a batch or up to $5500 a pound. The sale of later-term elective abortions at D.C. General Hospital brought $68,000 between 1966 and 1976. The money was used to buy a TV set and cookies and soft drinks for visiting professors. Personally, I hope that they choked on the Kool-Aid! Call your local abortuary and hospital and ask them some pointed questions about the disposal and possible sale of fetuses. Would an abortionist who kills a baby think twice about selling its body? One prenatal killer said, "A baby is becoming property. We kill, keep or sell the property."
In the Pittsburgh Women's Health Service there's a sign in the lab areas asking doctors not to carry dead fetuses without wrapping them since it disturbs the patients.
What have abortuaries done with fetuses in the past before they realized that they could make another profit out of them? Well, "Richmond's shame" marked a new low in disposal of wastes. An abortion center there filled a long bin on the rear of its property with the remains of its day's nefarious doings. Its trash compactor neatly mashed 100 babies' bodies which were then tied up in plastic bags and thrown on top of the bin. "The hungry dogs came along and dragged the bags away. There were frequent fights and the contents of the bags would be strewn up and down the streets until the dogs separated the gauze, sponges and pads and devoured the placenta, bones and flesh of the babies." said a mother.
She went to the police, health department and city hall and felt that she got nowhere: but the bags, of warm human babies' mutilated parts disappeared from the streets even though the clinic increased its abortions from 25 to 150 a week. They've since moved to larger quarters.
The Jacksonville, , Florida, Womens' Center for Reproductive Health, which is run and owned by the Clergy Consultation Service, advertises "celebrating a decade of service."
What they don't advertise is that they leave aborted babies out for the trash pickup. Rev. Marvin Lutz, the director explained that the practice of leaving the remains out was perfectly legal and approved by the "good housekeeping" Judases, the National Abortion Federation and the Florida Abortion Council.
Dr. Jeronimo Dominguez of New York wrote that "on any Monday you can see about 30 garbage bags with fetal material in them along the sidewalks of several abortion clinics in New York." In Odessa, Texas, city ordinance 69-91 forbids placing a dead animal in a dumpster. But that didn't stop one abortionist from depositing large brown plastic bags full of sock like gauze bags into the city dumpster prior to closing every night. A Baptist minister opened the bags and to his horror found a little "perfectly formed hands and feet of a 13-week old baby and the complete body, in pieces, of a 17-week old baby. Everything except one foot was there: the rib cage, sexual organs, head, finger nails and toe nails."
He nearly died of shock. I nearly did too, reading about it.
They Burn Babies, Don't They?
Babies used to be burned on the altar to Baal; now they're burned in furnaces at the sites of their deaths. In Cincinnati, a prenatal killer allowed dense smoke to emanate from his chimney. When firemen were called they were told, "They're burning babies," as if that was routine. One wonders how life saving firemen could continue their dedication amid such a contradiction!
One pro-lifer overheard her children (ages five and seven) discussing the infamous picture of the babies in the trash can the first time they saw it.
"It's dolls, It has to be dolls," said the kindergartner. "No," said his pre-school sister, "it's babies." The older child couldn't believe it. "It has to be dolls," he insisted. "Why would anyone throw away babies?"
When their mother explained to them that it was babies, both children grew very quiet. Silently they studied the picture and then recalled the times they had gone on trips to the city dump with the family. "Will the rats eat the babies when they take them to the dump?" the boy asked.
A wounded American eagle was found in Maryland recently and rushed to emergency treatment but it was too late. He died. A $5000 reward was offered for the arrest of its killer. Similarly, the Izaak Walton League's ethics fund has spent nearly $60,000 in the last one and one half years to enhance outdoor ethics.
It is illegal to ship pregnant lobsters (regardless of which trimester!) to market. There's a $1000 fine and a year's jail term as a penalty.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that goldfish cannot be awarded as prizes in games of chance. This violates the state's anti cruelty law to protect the "tendency to dull humanitarian feelings and corrupt the morals of those who observe them." This same court upheld mandatory state funding of abortions!
If the human fetus were an animal, its welfare might be entrusted to the Department of Agriculture or the Fish and Wildlife service where it would be safer than at the mercy of the Health Department. The hackles of the SPCA would rise at the physical treatment it received.
Some researchers insist that the reason they must do research on human fetuses is because they are human, not animal. In a it-shouldn't-happen to a dog story, 47 senators voted in 1974 to protect dogs from experimentation with poisonous gas but then voted down Sen. Jess Helm's amendment to prevent federal funds from being used for abortion. One liberal, pro-abortion Senator gave an emotion laden speech to protect dogs. Man's best friend came out better than man himself!
Who is pressing for the "right" to experiment? No one less than the nation Institutes of Health. A stacked national commission gave them the "right" and this experimentation is funded by you, the taxpayer!
There is another sequel to the erosion of the value of human life. Abortion, fetal experimentation, infanticide and euthanasia are four walls of the same coffin.
Even Planned Parenthood's anti life lawyer Harriet Pilpel was shocked. "What mother (sic) would consent to an experiment on her fetus?" she asked.
Some of the more shocking facts that will give you heart palpitations include:
The Modern Scalp Display?
And the atrocities go on. Will the unborn be regarded as handy little organ sources? Will our preborn brothers and sisters become a source of spare body parts?
Listen to the newscasters - they are already pleading nationwide for organs. It's enough to make you tear up your organ donor card! At least adults can consent to being inventorized like a body shop's spare parts department but Little Bugger cannot!
After reading that aborted babies' fat is being used to make soap in England and the fact that the former head of the federal Centers for Disease Control abortion surveillance branch proposed that abortions should be charged for by the length of the baby's foot, are we surprised that babies are treated this way in the Year of the Child or the Year of the Disabled?
After reading the above, if your heart is still beating, run, don't walk, to your nearest prayer closet and start praying!
SYSOP's note: Everything you have just read is quite true. Dr. Fairfax has documentation and clippings to support every point made in this article. You may obtain a copy from her - Please send a donation with your request for the 10 pages to Dr. Olga Fairfax, 12105 Livingston St., Weaton, MD 20902. Olga Fairfax, Ph.D is director of Methodist United for Life.
This article was transcribed from the Christian Contender Vol. 1, No.3, April 1984 by Anton Johnson. They reprinted it by permission of A.L.L. About Issues Magazine, P.O. Box 490 Stafford, Va. 22554.