Posted on 10/08/2020 10:18:55 AM PDT by PoeToaster
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. 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.
Last Friday, as Trump developed worrisome symptoms of covid-19, the president received an emergency cocktail of anti-coronavirus antibodies made by Regeneron. These molecules are manufactured in cells from a hamster’s ovary, so-called “CHO” cells, according to the company—not in human cells.
But cells originally derived from a fetus were used in another way. According to Regeneron, laboratory tests used to assess the potency of its antibodies employed a standardized supply of cells called HEK 293T, whose origin was kidney tissue from an abortion in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Since then, the 293T cells have been “immortalized,” meaning they keep dividing in the lab, somewhat like a cancer, and have undergone other genetic changes and additions.
According to Regeneron, it and many other labs employ 293T cells to manufacture virus “pseudoparticles,” which are virus-like structures that contain the “spike” protein of the deadly coronavirus. It needs those to test how well different antibodies will neutralize the virus.
The two antibodies Regeneron eventually put forward as an experimental treatment, which may have saved Trump’s life, would have been selected using exactly such tests. Because the 293T cells were acquired so long ago, and have lived so long in the laboratory, they are no longer thought of as involving abortion politics.
Trump just got a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug for covid At 74 and overweight, the president is at higher risk for serious illness.
“It’s how you want to parse it,” says Alexandra Bowie, a Regeneron spokesperson. “But the 293T cell lines available today are not considered fetal tissue, and we did not otherwise use fetal tissue.”
The Trump administration has sought to block or curtail research that requires tissue from recently performed abortions. In August, for example, a new board created by the Department of Health and Human Services, and stacked with figures opposed to abortion, voted to withhold funding from 13 of 14 proposals.
The rejections centered on research seeking fresh supplies of abortion tissue, rather than ongoing research involving older, well-established cell lines in use for many years, like the type Regeneron employed. However, one reason some scientists want to study abortion tissue is so they can create new and valuable cell lines.
“...It may be safe to say the President didn’t know Regeneron was made with aborted fetal cells....”
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“Jane, you ignorant slut.” ;-)
Please read AND UNDERSTAND the attempt at fake news to which you willingly succumbed. EXTRACT from article:
“...the president received an emergency cocktail of anti-coronavirus antibodies made by Regeneron. These molecules are manufactured in cells from a hamster’s ovary, so-called “CHO” cells, according to the company—not in human cells....”
Please PM me when you first notice President Trump trying to exercise in a hamster wheel... then I’ll be worried.
Yes, Regeneron sometimes uses in vitro stem cells which is unacceptable from a pro-life standpoint. HOWEVER. in the case of this SPECIFIC REGN-COV2 treatment, Regeneron says they DID NOT use any sort of stem cells for the research of production!
I agree. Fake news most likely. However the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccines is unconscionable. Many ARE proven to use them.
Excellent, can you please provide me with the link to that information. Thanks!
Is it supposed to be better somehow that Regeneron uses murdered babies that were conceived in a lab, rather than murdered babies that were conceived naturally?
From a consistent pro-life stand point, it isn’t any better. However, this specific treatment was not researched or produced using either in vitro or naturally conceived human embryonic stem cells.
Your fact check must be wrong...just look at everyone else’s speculation, while completely ignoring your post and another that contained a link to fact-checking.
NOW they care...suuuure....amazing the depths they will go to to scratch their TDS...
HEADLINE IS FALSE - The Cocktail Trump received did not the use of human stem cells or embryonic stem cells or fetal tissue.
“There is no evidence publicly available to support the claim that REGN-COV2 utilized embryonic stem cells. What’s more, a Regeneron representative told The Dispatch Fact Check that “Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 program did not involve use of human stem cells, embryonic stem cells or fetal tissue.”
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/was-trumps-antibody-cocktail-created
Thanks for the Fact Checking columbo
Bump
“Is it supposed to be better somehow that Regeneron uses murdered babies that were conceived in a lab, rather than murdered babies that were conceived naturally?”
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Please try to understand that the monoclonal antibodies used in this “drug” were produced USING HAMSTER OVARY CELLS. Specifically, this breed of hamster:
This author is a DISGRACE pointing out something like this.
I’m SURE whatever was needed from that source COULD HAVE BEEN FOUND ELSEWHERE.
What a GHOUL to find it necessary to share.
Trump must be headed for the biggest landslide victory since 1984 if they are playing this card.
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/was-trumps-antibody-cocktail-created
Was Trump’s Antibody Cocktail Created Through Research Using Embryonic Stem Cells?
How many ‘vaccines’ are made using Embryonic Stem Cells?
So the media is opposed to using stolen information that is forbidden to them?
And so murdering humans is opposed as wrong but faced with the reality of persons starving and with no other food but some protein that which was derived from murdered persons, then using that to save lives would be hypocritical?
Honestly, I think most items are like injecting poison in to your system.
Thanks for posting this information.
Chinese hamsters? Dang, don’t trust that. Why not use American hamsters?
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