Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Always an excuse


In the past, antiabortion advocates have spoken out against medical treatments that use components derived from aborted fetal tissue at any point in the creation and testing processes, including experimental coronavirus vaccines.

However, each group told Insider they would not engage in this controversy — some because they said they believed the cells used in testing bore little connection to the 1972 abortion and others because the antibody cocktail itself didn't contain traces of fetal tissue.

  Business Insider
They should be okay with receiving stolen goods then. If you didn't do the stealing yourself, where's the blame?
Texas Alliance for Life, the Heritage Foundation, and Pro-Life Action League, plus others that didn't respond to Insider's requests for comment, have opposed the use of human stem cells, including those derived from aborted fetuses, to test vaccines including a potential COVID-19 shot.

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According to MIT Technology Review, most scientists don't view HEK 293T cells as fetal cells because of how many times they've been divided, changed, and used over the past few decades.

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Mary Alice Carter, a senior advisor to Equity Forward, a watchdog group that monitors the influence of abortion opponents within the administration, told The Washington Post that Trump "has politically sided with folks who want to see these cell lines no longer used for therapies but went ahead and received it himself."
He had no idea. But even if he had, he'd have received it. 

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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