Are you crazy about looking younger? And if yes, are you ready to pay for this fascination? Apparently, this enthrallment can cost you to give up upon your humanity. The ethical standards of the cosmopolitan coterie witness a shameful low as the craze for beautification heads towards cannibalism. More so, the institutional or rather clinical abortion would necessarily mean that the disposed-off fetuses after abortion can possibly act as an unethical breeding ground for procuring fetal cells for the cosmetic industrial production. Thereby, giving rise to catastrophic genetic privacy violations in the longer run.
Cannibalism for titivating glamour
The democratic societies around the globe are going gaga about veganism. On the contrary, a fraction of the fashion industry is busy vulturing prodigious amounts of profit by producing cosmetics out of the aborted foetus cells. While the medical abortions account for 81% of the 15.6 million abortions estimated to take place each year in India. Nonetheless, the substantial post-abortion tissues spawn by surgical abortion at clinics tot up to a significant 2.2 million. In addition, the clinical abortion rate is expected to see a boom subsequent to the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court furnishing right to abortion irrespective of marital status.
However, the aforementioned move of the judiciary can culminate into a shady nexus between the fashion industry and the medical clinics for obtaining aborted foetal cells for manufacturing cosmetic products as has been witnessed in the United States.
Carnage for Anti-Ageing Creams
At the heart of this menace lies the bizarre case of manufacturing anti-aging cosmetics by a Swiss bio-pharmaceutical company, ‘Neocutis’ founded in 2003. The web site of the company provides that its anti-aging products contain a proprietary skin care ingredient, processed skin cell proteins, which is derived from cultured foetal skin cells.
Since the year 1992, the medical researchers have revealed that foetal skin cell have a unique ability to heal wounds without scarring. As a consequence, Neocutis claims that its proprietary psp® ingredient can effectively kindle the wound healing process, and improve skin texture and reduce the appearance of wrinkles in the eye and mouth areas. In another instance, the Croatian Bishop Jezerinac emerges out of the blue to manufacture perfume from the foetuses.
Violation of genetic privacy
Ever since globalization kicked in the markets around the globe have become more profit centric. At the core of it lies the information sharing and adoption of profit fetching strategies of other corporations. Having said so, the corporations in India are expected to adopt the use of similar unethical practices of using foetal cells in the manufacture of cosmetics. The said practice masquerades human rights violations and exemplifies the deepening roots of social evils for beautification.
In India, the management and disposal of aborted tissue depends on and varies with gestational age, whether the abortion is medical or surgical, and whether the procedure is within or outside a facility approved under the MTP Act and Rules. In India, approximately 1.2 million medical abortions performed in health facilities included first trimester abortions. The cells from the removed foetuses can be conveniently provided to the cosmetic manufactures by the medical clinics. Moving forward, a lack of foetus disposal policy would significantly elevate the threat of violation of genetic privacy with respect to the female folks undergoing abortion.
Foetal skin tissue procurement
Foetal research entails both invasive and non-invasive modus operandi. The aborted foetuses are collected with the rationale to extract the foetal tissues which are put to use in the cosmetics. The primary two modes of deriving such foetal tissue incorporate elective (or induced) abortions and spontaneous (or natural) abortions. The aforementioned process coupled with extensive research and manufacturing has been in practice in the United States for the past 36 years. The anti-aging cosmetics under consideration are manufactured by a great fraction of the fashion and cosmetic industry. However, the rampant cannibalism wriggles under the carpet, away from the public discourse.
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