Scandal of newborn babies stolen from their mothers

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Women in Ukraine tell how their children were taken from them in the hospital delivery room, never to be seen again


IT SEEMED, at first, to be an uncomplicated birth.
After two hours of labour, Svetlana Pusikova delivered her firstborn at 4am on November 4, 2002. Medical staff whisked the baby out of the delivery room, leaving the 22-year-old waitress to recover in Maternity Hospital No 6 in Kharkov, eastern Ukraine.

She never saw the child again.

Seven weeks later Yelena Stulnyeva gave birth at the same hospital. She says she saw her baby girl wriggling and heard her crying before medical staff took her away.

She, too, never saw her daughter again.

In both cases the hospital says the babies were stillborn, and buried by local authorities because the parents did not ask for the corpses.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1773724,00.html

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1. The invisible hand of the Godawmighty Free Market!

This is the best of capitalism! Time to approve BAFTA (Babies Are for Trading Also). It's the Amurikan Way!

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2. The research institute that advertises foetus body parts on internet

The research institute that advertises foetus body parts on internet
By Jeremy Page, Sam Lister and Anthony Browne



TATYANA ZAKHAROVA shook her head as she ran her finger down the page and read out the products on offer.
“Foetus spleen cells, fragments of foetus spine, foetus liver cells,” the human rights activist from Kharkov said.

“How can this be allowed?” The list was taken from a website, www.celltransplantation.iatp.org.ua/specialist.htm, naming materials produced by the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kharkov.

The institute, one of the biggest and most famous in its field, says that the materials are produced legally using early aborted foetuses which are otherwise disposed of as biowaste.

But its highly specialised and controversial research is now under scrutiny after renewed allegations that live babies — or their dead bodies — have disappeared from maternity hospitals in Kharkov.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1773726,00.html