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Posted on 04/29/2019 6:25:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A lecture at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine included a slide that drew “parallels between fetuses and cancers.”
In response to a Thursday night tweet containing a photo of one of the slides, Twitter users expressed disgust at the language used by the professor, who referred to the fetus as a “legitimate parasite” that “invades” a mother and “manipulates” her immunity.
Campus Reform obtained a copy of the full slide deck from the course, titled, "Evolution of Human Disease." The slide in question reveals that the comparison was billed as an attempt to explain the tendency of humans and other mammals to develop cancer. Notes on the deck portray the comparison as a "practice question."
"The fetus: a legitimate parasite: rapidly grows, invades, manipulates immunity of mother, reshapes blood vessels," the top half of the slide reads. "The cancer: crashes the party, rapidly grows, invades, manipulates immunity, reshapes blood vessels," the bottom half reads.
Stanford Medical student Dylan Griswold tweeted the photograph after he said it was sent to him by a student enrolled in the upper-level UCSD biology course. He says he felt the need to do so in order to address the increasing tendency to speak about pregnancy as a disease.
“In a country where abortion on demand/till birth is becoming the norm, it becomes increasingly important to recognize the dignity of both the mother and her unborn child,” Griswold told Campus Reform.
“This slide, while intended to show similar mechanisms of invasive processes, both implicitly and explicitly pathologizes pregnancy. It is no wonder why Planned Parenthood performs over 300,000 abortions each year - we treat pregnancy as a disease to be avoided at any cost - often at the highest expense, the life of the unborn child,” he added.
Campus Reform reached out to both the professor and the university for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Says the former parasite.
That’s how I feel about career welfare recipients and politicians
You left out college professors and their ill learned children.
and Freepers were aghast when i kept posting for the past 15 years that we CANNOT co-exist with liberals. One side has to “go”..
Given that the fetus is essential to the perpetuation of the species, I think the professor is entirely missing the point.
Mosquitos were designed by nature to suck the blood of other animals, but animals were not designed to have their blood sucked by mosquitos. A parasite is something that was not intended by nature to the species it attacks. A fetus, however, is something that was designed by nature to benefit a species. It cannot be categorized as a parasite.
Said no one ever, not even the professor's parents.
“One side has to “go”..
See my tag line.
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If you want to get pedantic a fetus or child does not invade, it is encapsulated. So it does not behave like cancer. Also a parasite implies no mutual benefit. A parasite also uses its host to multiply and divide. Anyone who has taken any biology course would know this.
If only this guy’s mother had felt the same way, and excised him.
Keep this “doctor” away from patients.
Oh, forgot, he’s in a university.
A classic case of projection! Strike the word ‘legitimate’ though.
I should have added that I know of no cancer that grows for only 9 months, and then ejects itself.
My bet is that any and all cancer patients would choose that type of cancer over the real stuff.
Gads, how did this clown get a medical degree?
WTH... Why doesn’t she identify this POS???
Seems like every Democrat is trying to out do the total idiocy of every other Democrat. This guy should off himself immediately.
Cancerous tumors don’t grow up to be doctors who make stupid analogies.
Is it possible to be a nitwit ghoul?
Metaphors
Well Hillary and socialist professors can be compared with parasites but they’re still protected while innocent babies are not
The president of Baylor U, for example, makes 5,009,090.00 per year. That’s every year. For what? He doesn’t guarantee a job for all the kids going through his school.
God gives us needy people, babies, and children, nieces, nephews neighbor kids, student, customers, in order for us to give to purify our souls Children are a blessing
While socialist campus denizens do the work of the enemy. They take.
They give back nothing that does not benefit themselves
There’s that dag-gum word: “PROFESSOR” again.
It used to command respect, honor, higher intelligence, etc.
Today, it means NOTHING but another insane libtard.
And to think people pay good money to send their little snowflakes to be “brainwashed” by these insane morons.
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