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DonViejo

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Thu Jun 6, 2019, 02:36 PM Jun 2019

Trump deals huge blow to HIV research with new policy


By David Reddish 47 minutes ago

Renewing his attacks on the queer community (despite selling T-shirts promoting LGBTQ support), Donald Trump has canceled vital AIDS research.

Trump officials cited the president’s commitment to anti-abortion forces. A spokesperson for the White House said: “This was the president’s decision, another important policy … to protect the dignity of human life.” Anonymous officials also say that Vice President Mike Pence played a crucial role in the decision as well.

The new policy bans testing HIV therapies on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions. In essence, doctors harvested the leftover tissue to test experimental treatments. The process began in the 1930s and has been used in the development of a number of therapies, including finding new treatments for kidney failure, AIDS and Parkinson’s Disease. The medical community has widely characterized the practice as vital to disease research since the fetal tissue can be used to mimic a variety of cells found in the human body. No substitute has yet been discovered.

University of California San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood hotly criticized the move as detrimental to disease research.

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Trump deals huge blow to HIV research with new policy (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2019 OP
Given a continuation of tRump, the US will be a wasteland in a few years, lagging the rest of the RKP5637 Jun 2019 #1
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RKP5637

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1. Given a continuation of tRump, the US will be a wasteland in a few years, lagging the rest of the
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 03:03 PM
Jun 2019

world community. IMO, given the current direction, the US will take a back seat to the rest of the world in this century.

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