fresh baby meat

The Ukraine sounds like a happening place:

The pictures show organs, including brains, have been stripped - and some bodies dismembered.

A senior British forensic pathologist says he is very concerned to see bodies in pieces - as that is not standard post-mortem practice.

It could possibly be a result of harvesting stem cells from bone marrow.

I am all for stem cell research, but it's crazy shit like this that freaks people out about it. Really though, this is not a problem specific to stem cells. You can buy freshly harvested body parts in a variety of countries if you know who to talk to. There have long been allegations that the Chinese government routinely sells organs harvested from executed prisoners. Fundamentally it is capitalism: there is a demand so someone is supplying it.

The irony is that the butchering of freshly born babies to harvest stem cells would probably not be economically viable if the US just mandated that all aborted fetuses be harvested for stem cells. Of course the Christian theofascists would flip their shit if that ever happened. It makes sense though, aborted fetuses are typically just thrown out as medical waste right now. Why not get some use out of them? It's not going to change the rate of abortions, the only thing that ever has is education and access to birth control (or the lack thereof). It will however benefit scientific progress while simultaneously crashing the stem cell black market, thus saving the lives of Ukrainian babies now and the lives of everyone who will later benefit from the advancement of our knowledge of stem cells.