In reply to Tom Kendall.

"These stem cells have been engineered from the spinal cord of a single fetus electively aborted after eight weeks of gestation. The tissue was obtained with the mother's consent."

Source: http://www.alsconsortium.org/trial.php?id=12

Even if they had gone to an abortionist and obtained the dead baby from there, the research they conduct from tissue recovered from the corpse would still be woefully unethical.