Skin cream made from aborted fetal skin cells

KLTV: Back in 2004, a married couple in Switzerland became pregnant. The couple's fetus was diagnosed with posterior encephalocele. The brain was deformed, the brain stem was underdeveloped and the retinas were not formed correctly.

Doctors said the fetus wouldn't survive, so the parents decided to terminate the pregnancy. But before doing so, the parents sent some of the fetus' cells to a cell bank. And cloned proteins from those cells were used to make NeoCutis skin cream.

. . . "Most physicians aren't going to know for sure how this was developed in its early stages," said Dr. Charles Kay, bioethicist at Wofford College. "It's important to note that fetal tissues, stem cells - these are not ingredients in these preparations. These are simply the origins of the cells which produce the proteins, and are in turn, the ingredients."

. . . NeoCutis is quite blunt about the use of fetal skin cells on their website. . . . The letters "PSP" on the front of the tube indicate the cream was made from "processed skin cell proteins."