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Medical Researchers Say Fetal Tissue Remains Essential
ABC News ^ | August 11, 2015 | Collin Binkley and Carla K. Johnson

Posted on 08/11/2015 1:36:59 AM PDT by Zakeet

The furor on Capitol Hill over Planned Parenthood has stoked a debate about the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research, but U.S. scientists have been using such cells for decades to develop vaccines and seek treatments for a host of ailments, from vision loss and neurological disorders to cancer and AIDS.

Anti-abortion activists set off the uproar by releasing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials that raised questions of whether the organization was profiting from the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has denied making any profit and said it charges fees solely to cover its costs.

University laboratories that buy such cells strongly defend their research, saying tissue that would otherwise be thrown out has played a vital role in lifesaving medical advances and holds great potential for further breakthroughs.

Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted.

"If researchers are unable to work with fetal tissue, there is a huge list of diseases for which researchers would move much more slowly, rather than quickly, to find their cause and how they can be cured," Stanford University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said in an email.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykilling; babyparts; healthcare; mengele; plannedbutcherhood
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It's OK to kill babies and sell their body parts ... cause the end justifies the means ...

1 posted on 08/11/2015 1:36:59 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

If using dead babies is an integral part to our medical successes, then you know something is wrong.


2 posted on 08/11/2015 1:57:18 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."- Lord Byron)
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To: Zakeet
Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted.

Satan's minions never cease repeating the lie...

3 posted on 08/11/2015 2:02:28 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
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To: Zakeet
I see a title that says "essential". Yet, I see words in the narrative that say "material that would otherwise be thrown out plays a vital role in the potential to advance research and cure disease. Finally topping off their laundry list of 'should, coulds, and woulds' with "if researchers can't use fetal 'tissue' work could go slowly, slowly, slowly.

I don't know about anyone else out there, but if there are 'researchers' out there who are saying these things, let's have their damned names and who they work for? Let's get them to tell us what disease their use of the remains of a dead baby actually cured a disease.

Let's get them to tell us about ALL the research, even possibly [I'll use their journalistic style here] research that doesn't have anything to do with curing disease - for instance, can they tell us with absolute verification they don't do work for cosmetic firms, or other companies that want to develop products to get rid of wrinkles, bags under the eyes, grow hair or extend life?

Names, places of employment, who pays them, for WHAT and how much. Tell us about the whole list of diseases and why it is so important to cause the abortion industry to gear up so extensively to become an overnight meat delivery service.

It's disgusting and I'm tired of hearing nebulous excuses from unnamed ghouls. Come on out from under that rock and show us who you are.

4 posted on 08/11/2015 2:04:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet
Utilitarianism par excellence.

From the article:

Vaccines have been one of the chief public benefits of fetal tissue research

Let's replace a few words:

Friggin monsters.

Makes me never want to see a physician anymore, as I want NOTHING to do with this horror. I certainly do not want to be complicit (no matter how remote the material cooperation is) with this. NOTHING.

5 posted on 08/11/2015 2:07:10 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Zakeet

An idea made in HELL...
transferred to an abortatorium

Marketed on Wall Street..
Worse than Muslim Terrorists..
AND more accepted than killing doggies
in shelters..


6 posted on 08/11/2015 2:09:39 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Politicalkiddo

If it takes cells from an aborted baby to save me....please, just let me die in peace.


7 posted on 08/11/2015 2:19:31 AM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Zakeet

Ghouls.


8 posted on 08/11/2015 2:21:01 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Bobalu

Same here. My life is not worth robbing helpless innocents of theirs.


9 posted on 08/11/2015 2:22:42 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."- Lord Byron)
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To: Zakeet

Why don’t they just order the pastrami instead?


10 posted on 08/11/2015 2:23:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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If it takes cells from an aborted baby to save me....please, just let me die in peace.

I agree.

11 posted on 08/11/2015 2:24:37 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Zakeet

Improvise, adapt, and then overcome. This is purely satanic.

in regards to fetal cells being used in vaccines...

“Two major stressors that were found to be potential “tipping points” in the 1988-89 time span were increased immunization rates (and amounts) and the introduction of fetal-based cells into common vaccines such as some measles mumps rubella (MMR).”

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/028688_autism_fetal_cells.html#ixzz3iUtJABoY


12 posted on 08/11/2015 2:29:18 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Politicalkiddo

A liberal would look at my statement and say “When it came right down to it, he would buckle and accept the fetal cell treatment”

They are wrong.

What would it profit me to gain more life, but lose my soul?


13 posted on 08/11/2015 2:29:54 AM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Bobalu

Exactly. These selfish Nazi pigs don’t understand compassion and humanity. Or even the value that God has placed on human life. I pity them.


14 posted on 08/11/2015 2:32:21 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."- Lord Byron)
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To: Zakeet

Keep killing unborn children to feed to the god Moloch Research!

15 posted on 08/11/2015 2:34:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet

Very good article from 2012 with these quotes:

“ALL VACCINES ARE CONTAMINATED, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!” – Dr. Maurice Hillerman, Former Head Of Vaccines at Merck

“The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination” — Dr. Robert Bell (former Vice President International Society for Cancer Research at the British Cancer Hospital)”

http://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/11/vaccine-nation-vaccination-the-hidden-truth-documented-vaccines-make-you-sick-dumb-and-dead/

also...

““It took almost three years of research before we looked at each other and said ‘Vaccines are killing babies’… It is a well documented fact that the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases fell by 90% well before any vaccine was even introduced.”

And this from Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, author of the book “Every Second Child”:


16 posted on 08/11/2015 2:37:13 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Very good article on vaccines. Indepth site.

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/


17 posted on 08/11/2015 2:40:23 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Bobalu

You asked, “What would it profit me to gain more life, but lose my soul?” Your rhetorical question strikes into the black heart of the idea that some lives are more valuable than other lives. The seductive whisper is something like this: “Isn’t your life worth it?”


18 posted on 08/11/2015 2:43:45 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: Zakeet

19 posted on 08/11/2015 3:14:30 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: markomalley

...”Friggin monsters.”...

Plain spoken, unvarnished truth!


20 posted on 08/11/2015 3:15:02 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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