Posted on 07/22/2015 2:55:21 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Pediatric neurosurgeon and GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson says this week that Planned Parenthood’s claim that obtaining fetal tissue from abortions is important for medical and scientific research is “spurious.”
“There’s nothing that can’t be done without fetal tissue,” Carson said on Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File. “[I]t’s been over-promised what the benefits of fetal research would be. And very much under-delivered.”
Yet, the promise of medical research was the defense given for the discussion by Planned Parenthood’s senior medical director, seen in an investigative video, describing how to abort a baby in such a way that allows its organs and body parts to be useful for sale to biomedical companies.
Eric Ferrero, the organization’s vice president of communications, asserted that Planned Parenthood donates aborted fetal tissue “to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs.”
Carson, however, is not the only doctor who finds that “spurious.”
Dr. Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPEDS), actually goes one step further.
“Let’s be clear: selling organs of aborted babies for fetal tissue research is unnecessary and prolongs human suffering,” she tells Breitbart News. “Fetal tissue research, like embryonic stem cell research, has failed to produce a single successful treatment for human disease, and both have been associated with significant side-effects including overgrowth of cells and the need for immunosuppressive chemotherapy.”
Cretella further explains:
Adult stem cell research, in contrast, has yielded treatments for 73 different diseases including several forms of cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, cardiac disease, autoimmune illnesses and more. Adult stem cells do not overgrow or require immunosuppression, and most importantly, they do not require the killing of innocent human life.
“Each dollar spent on fetal tissue transplants from aborted babies and embryonic stem cell research is a dollar not spent on expanding the success...
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Truth in advertising 101:
Planned Parenthood should update their name to “Baby Parts ‘R’ Us!
Only problem......the lib/zits would love it.
Is there a record of Dr. Michelle Cretella’s comments on a politically neutral or left wing site?
Everyone knows they use this material to feed feminists.
I'm wondering if some of it isn't going to China. They have some really weird stuff that they consider "medicinal" there. (i.e., rhino horns and the like)
They are growing fetal stem cells — new lines. There is a myth that fetal stem cells would be more useful for treating disease. However, it has been proven that adult stem cells actually work, whereas the fetal stem cells have not produced any success stories (despite the claims of Michael J. Fox and Nancy Reagan.) Furthermore, umbilical cord cells can be harvested legally, easily, and morally.
I’m sure there are plenty who would never question it at all. But I’m not at all sure you could keep a fetal liver, etc. “alive” for any length of time and I also do not see how it would “grow”.
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