{"id":16132,"date":"2012-05-07T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=16132"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:34:04","slug":"the-horrific-trade-in-powdered-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-horrific-trade-in-powdered-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;horrific trade in powdered babies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16137\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" title=\"pill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-2-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-2-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-2-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-2.jpg 1675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2140702\/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html\"><em>UK Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> reported that &#8220;thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh&#8221; &#8211; over 17,000, to be exact &#8211; have been &#8220;discovered by customs officials in South Korea.&#8221; \u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2140702\/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html\">reveals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born &#8230;\u00a0The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves. \u00a0Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These pills, sold as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com\/articles\/193371\/20110805\/china-dead-baby-pill-stamina-booster-cannibal-placenta.htm\">stamina enhancer<\/a>&#8221; and to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/338199\/20120507\/china-south-korea-human-flesh-baby-fetus.htm\">cure certain diseases<\/a>,&#8221; are being smuggled across China&#8217;s border and into South Korea. Some fear that the pills may begin to appear on the internet for sale worldwide. A South Korean documentary team first brought this horrific trade to light in the summer of 2011. The <em>San Francisco Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com\/articles\/193371\/20110805\/china-dead-baby-pill-stamina-booster-cannibal-placenta.htm\">reported<\/a> on the team&#8217;s findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Korean team acquired the dead baby capsules and ran DNA tests on it. The test results reportedly indicated the pills were 99.7 percent human. The test also found hair and nail remnants, and even the gender of the baby could be identified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Denver Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/latin\/ci_20564928\/skorea-finds-smuggled-capsules-contain-human-flesh\">reports <\/a>(emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The capsules were made in northeastern China <em>from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves<\/em> before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only do these pills have a cannibalistic quality &#8211; consumers will be eating and digesting actual human remains &#8211; but they are also full of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2140702\/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html\">super-bacteria<\/a>&#8221; and present real health concerns, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/latin\/ci_20564928\/skorea-finds-smuggled-capsules-contain-human-flesh\">no actual cases <\/a>of sickness have been reported to date.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Mail<\/em>&#8216;s report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2140702\/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html\">details<\/a> the connection between the powdered baby pills and abortion in China:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China&#8217;s notorious &#8216;dying rooms&#8217; where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year &#8211; mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised &#8211; but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to the brave new world. A world where even aborted babies do not go to waste. A world where murdered innocents are not allowed to rest in peace. A world where the money made off abortion simply isn&#8217;t enough anymore. A world where monetary profits reign, and human beings literally kill and consume one another. 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