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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.
Hmm... I’ve never seen a parasite that loves its host, has a lifelong relationship with it’s host, regardless of leaving physical contact behind, and who cares for the host in her old age and mourns her passing.
Tenured professors are legitimate parasites.
The Lefts obsession with pushing abortion seems to be causing them to go mad.
If this professor was once a parasite, when exactly did it stop being a parasite?
I recently went to my daughter’s ultrasound and saw my soon to be born grandson. No one could see this ultrasound and deny that what they were seeing was not a human being.
I would say he still is a parasite.
Quack failed biology
The level of demonic deception running rampant in some folks is breath-taking.
What you say is true, and it is why God made Hell. In the future we will not have to co exist with liberals.
Americans, an extinct race, made so by the propensity
of it’s females to kill their own offspring.
Abortion is plainly genocide, 60,000,000 killed.
Remember too that they were all potential tax payers
and generators of wealth. Sad to contemplate.
So the "slippery slope" is built into the argument from the start.
But it's not a slippery slope, it's a staircase with each step deliberately taken.
Sod off, moron.
WTF do you think breasts are for, besides for you to jerk off over?
And you call *me* a moron?
Consider your first sentence, about parasites.
Since the female has organs pre-existing which activate only during pregnancy, to feed the baby *after* birth; and pregnancy only results, based on a combination of the woman’s physiological state and her actions (which are not incidental, like walking through tall brush to acquire deer ticks), that pretty much destroys any idea of the fetus as parasite.
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