RedZone Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 interesting story The Trump administration has taken an increasingly firm line against medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. For example, when it moved in 2019 to curtail the ability of the National Institutes of Health to fund such research, supporters hailed a “major pro-life victory” and thanked Trump personally for taking decisive action against what they called the “outrageous and disgusting” practice of “experimentation using baby body parts.” But when the president faced a deadly encounter with covid-19, his administration raised no objections over the fact that the new drugs also relied on fetal cells, and anti-abortion campaigners were silent too. Most likely, their hypocrisy was unwitting. Many types of medical and vaccine research employ supplies of cells originally acquired from abortion tissue. It would have taken an expert to realize that was the case with Trump’s treatment. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009664/trumps-antibody-treatment-was-tested-using-cells-from-an-abortion/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
On2whls Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 The 293T cells, are derived from kidney cells from an abortion in the Netherlands in 1970. That same line of cells has been continuously reproduced via cell culture ever since. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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