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From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A)
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Subject: Re: Re: Aborted fetuses in Cosmetics
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 18:24:02 EDT
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> However, please note the report of the shipment of a "truckload of
> frozen human fetuses ... intercepted at the Swiss-French border ...
> [en route to] its cosmetic factory destination."  Ray DiBlasio
> reported that news of this shipment is what led to the investigation
> of the use of human fetuses in cosmetics.  Let me supplement the
> references with a quote from Nick Thimmesch's column (The Seattle
> Times, June 27, 1982) [emphasis mine -- GMS]:
> 
> 	Fetal materials have value.  Last April, guards at the
> 	Swiss-French border intercepted a truck loaded with
> 	frozen HUMAN fetuses destined for French cosmetic
> 	laboratories.  This was reported in Gazette du Palais,
> 	a reputable legal journal, which explained that there
> 	was a busy trade in fetal remains for "beauty products
> 	used in rejuvenating the skin, sold in France at high
> 	prices."
> 
> I do not think it farfetched to conclude that the human fetuses
> being shipped to the cosmetics lab were the ones used in the
> product.
> Gary Samuelson
> ittvax!bunker!garys

I really hate to nit-pick, but an assertion in a column in a newspaper
I have never seen is not very persuasive.  The column doesn't name any
sources that I can calibrate either.  Did Nick Thimmesch actually get
a copy of the Gazette du Palais, or just hear from someone that it
exists, is a reputable legal journal, and has this article?  If you
could find something like an original article in WSJ or NYT reporting
such things, THAT would be more convincing.  They almost always
check carefully, and usually doublecheck.

Mike Gray