[ WP ] The secret to immorality is killing a newborn child . What is the world like ?

It started with the advent of cloning. Scientists were delving further and further into stem cell research, going as far as to harvest stem cells from living fetuses. Law was passed to allow this morally grey act as there were now methods to ensure the fetus' health after a hefty cell `` harvest''. With each month, what they were doing in the wombs of women became more and more grotesque. They wrapped and dressed it in their medical vernacular to hide the reality: they wanted a higher yield. 
 
 At first, the public thought it strange that all stem cell research in the past year had been purely to improve harvesting methods, then the public stopped caring. Pro-life advocates had given up on fighting stem-cells, their main focus even now is abortion rights. 
 
 Once the dust settled about the controversy, a mathematician from Ann Arbor, Michigan published a paper stating that current harvesting methods were as cost efficient as they will ever be with current technology. With hundreds and hundreds of researchers abandoning their now-fruitless projects, there was a sudden surge in novelty within the research community. Though many researchers returned to older projects, those projects were n't the ones to take the world by storm. 
 
 In Munich, Germany, they legalized Stem Cell Farms. Pregnant women would be hired to give birth in a facility where their fetus' stem cells could be harvested. One privately-owned farm, the Munich Stem Cell Farm, could not keep hospital-level cleaning standards within their facilities; as such, mothers and their children began to die. The cover-up lasted two months before it even hit the local newspapers. 
 
 The public was enraged, the farms were bombed, and the neighboring facilities were shut down. Fires were set around the homes of the facility administrators. The administrators were targeted and attacked in public. It did n't take long before over half of them were hospitalized. German government stepped in to provide protection, but current events had escalated too high. Those that remained healthy fled to other countries to evade the vigilantes. Then, happened the first administrator's'death'. 
 
 It was on a live television talk show. Johan Winheim was answering a question when an audience member walked onto the stage with a gun, shooting him twice in the chest and twice in the leg. The famous footage of the first immortal man was broadcast first to all of Munich. Johan stood up, took the gun out of the mans hand, and shoot him twice in the face, then sat back down to finish his sentence. Johan never again appeared to the press. 
 
 Rumors spread throughout the internet about immortality. How they had some connection to the stem cell farms in Munich. Various `` tomb raiding'' groups, mainly teenagers with GPS devices, decided to break into the condemned farms and look for clues. Weeks after the `` Immortal Broadcast'', as YouTube had branded it, people were claiming that they had confidential documents from the farms. With each leak, the user making the claim would only appear on the forum they posted it on once. This made it easy for people to brush it off as a prank, but often when files were posted, they were removed immediately. 
 
 Months later, a popular Japanese conspiracy theory BBS was the only consistent source of information on the matter. One theorist, パスワードさん, literally `` Mr. Password'', drew a connection from all the files posted. Loosely translated, his last post before disappearing: 
 
 >'' It seems that the deaths of the babies were intentional, the mothers' were n't. Counting the number of post-labor baby deaths, we see that there were exactly as many dead babies as there are administrators. It's like they each got a dead baby of their very own. I've yet to find anything interesting about the loads of pre-labor baby deaths. I'll keep doing my best!'' 
 
 The day after this post, Adam Levi, former researcher for the the Munich Stem Cell Farm made a personal statement from his new home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He posted it to Reddit, citing the post by Mr. Password. 
 
 >'' My name is Adam Levi and I took part in the sinful experiments in Munich. We had discovered the key to immortality. Johan Winheim was the first of our staff to undergo the procedure. We took fresh human children and killed them. We had a 10-minute window to prepare each body before... before converting [ them ] into a'gewölbe'. It was the name we gave to this new organ we invented. The organ would develop quickly within the span of hours. Human stem cells are magical things. They allowed us to integrate the organ as if it naturally belonged in us.'' 
 
 This post was followed by a Livestream feed from his webcam. Adam Levi took a kitchen knife, carved out his stomach, reached in with a smile, and out pulled a baby corpse woven in flesh and drenched in his blood. Livestream took down the recorded footage immediately and banned the channel. Adam Levi was pronounced dead later that day. The coroner ruled that his cause of death was actually from a bullet wound he had in the violent weeks back in Munich. During his gory livestream, he had unintentionally severed the gewölbe. 
 
 World governments held an assembly in Paris, France to discuss immortality. Though it was unanimous that immortality research should be considered a crime against humanity, it was quite clear that every world military had already begun investing in Immortal Soldier projects. Johan Winheim and the other administrators were never heard from again, though rumors have cropped up occasionally of sightings in London, Russia, and South Korea. 
 
 Now, only ten years later, the world has nearly forgotten about us.
