There was a time, way back when, when slimeballs would dig up recent graves and sell the bodies therefrom to medical schools for their anatomical research and training.


This was necessary, because the supply of legal corpses (executed criminals in the UK) was insufficient. You, and anyone else who has benefited from western medicine, have benefited indirectly from the work of the grave robbers. Yes, and I know about Burke (no relation) and Hare.

The solution was to increase the supply of corpses by using those of unclaimed paupers and allowing others to leave their bodies to science.

The solution to the possibility of a 'market' in foeti is to prohibit any payment for them, and to make it compulsory for aborted foeti to be donated.

Embroyonic stem cells do not have to come from aborted fetuses, the preferred method is growing them in Labs so there is less chance of contamination.

Lab cultures are more likely to be contaminated than freshly extracted tissue.