MIT Tech Review: Trump's antibody treatment was tested using cells derived from an abortion

[Mrs. Overall]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009664/trumps-antibody-treatment-was-tested-using-cells-from-an-abortion/

The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells. But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.

The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.

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.

[Girard442]

1. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

[Stallion]

2. They are Drinking Babies Blood!!!

[Johnny2X2X]

3. This needs to be spread far and wide

I have no problem with it, but Trump supporters should.

[IcyPeas]

4. it's on twitter. retweet it if you do twitter

Link to tweet

[Ms. Toad]

5. Yup. The initial reports indicated it used mouse embryo stem cells and human blood stem cells -

but a later article in the same journal somewhere in its history, it also used fetal stem cells from an abortion.

I haven't sorted out exactly how yet - that paragraph was technical in an area I'm not familiar with - but the implications were clear.