Anti-abortion groups are OK with Trump's use of a drug tested on cells derived from an abortion

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because the president 'was not involved with that abortion'

Antiabortion groups told Insider they took no issue with the fact that one of President Donald Trump's COVID-19 treatments — which he is now vowing to make available to all Americans — was tested using cells that originally came from an abortion.

It is a research practice Trump has severely restricted during his presidency and one pro-life groups have vehemently opposed.

To treat Trump, doctors gave him supplemental oxygen and treatments including a steroid typically used in severe COVID-19 cases and an experimental antibody cocktail created by the US biotech company Regeneron.

To test the antibody cocktail's effectiveness, Regeneron used an "immortalized epithelial cell line," or cells that were altered in a lab so they could last forever when they otherwise would not. These cells, now called HEK 293T cells, were derived from the kidneys of a fetus that was aborted in 1972 in the Netherlands.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/anti-abortion-groups-say-they-stand-behind-trumps-use-of-a-drug-tested-on-cells-derived-from-an-aborted-fetus-because-the-president-was-not-involved-with-that-abortion/ar-BB19SkGB?li=BBnb7Kz

Neither is anyone else who would use Regenernon. These assholes aren't pro-life they just want to control women's bodies.

[Tanuki]

1. Reminds me of when Pat Robertson found it convenient to make excuses for China's forced

abortion policies.

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-75564227/pat-robertson-condones-china-s-forced-abortion-policy

..." Appearing on the CNN program "Wolf Blitzer Reports" April 17, Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, remarked that the Chinese are "doing what they have to do" to keep the lid on a spiraling population. Robertson, who has repeatedly blasted legal abortion in the United States, said the Chinese policy is necessary because the country's population has topped 1 billion.

Asked by Blitzer to give his thoughts on the forced abortion policy, Robertson replied, "Well, you know I don't agree with it. But at the same time, they've got 1.2 billion people, and they don't know what to do. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable."

Robertson, who acknowledged that he has business interests in China, went on to say that China suffers from "tremendous unemployment" and is plagued with "antiquated factories" owned by the government that will have to be shut down, spawning more loss of jobs. "And the leadership is like on a teeter-totter board," he said. "They can fall off if the population gets too restive. So, I think that right now they are doing what they have to do. I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard."

Blitzer then asked Robertson if he was worried about conservatives accusing him of justifying the Chinese abortion policy. Robertson refused to back down, stating that China is courting "a demographic catastrophe" by aborting more girls than boys. He speculated that in 10 or 20 years Chinese men will have to import wives from Indonesia. This move, he said, "will, in a sense, dilute the -- what they consider the racial purity of the Han Chinese." (more)

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2. I recall how Dubya agonized over the decision to ban stem cell research

involving human fetuses. It took days for him to decide to ban it and make a big announcement from the Oval Office.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. ...

[Nevilledog]

4. +100000

[Ohiogal]

5. Too bad more Catholics don't feel this way.

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6. it would only be OTHER people's use...

of the drug...not their lord and savior...