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Dr. Ben Carson Response To Accusation Of Research On Fetal Tissue
Facebook ^ | 08/13/2015 | Dr. Ben Carson

Posted on 08/13/2015 7:29:51 PM PDT by Roos_Girl

I wanted to use our time tonight to directly deal with an attack launched on me today by the left and the media. A couple questions came in on this subject, so I want to address it head on.

Today I was accused by the press as having done research on fetal tissue. It simply is not true. The study they distributed by an anonymous source was done in 1992. The study was about tumors. I won’t bore you with the science. There were four doctors' names on the study. One was mine. I spent my life studying brain tumors and removing them. My only involvement in this study was supplying tumors that I had removed from my patients. Those tissue samples were compared to other tissue samples under a microscope. Pathologists do this work to gain clues about tumors.

I, nor any of the doctors involved with this study, had anything to do with abortion or what Planned Parenthood has been doing. Research hospitals across the country have microscope slides of all kinds of tissue to compare and contrast. The fetal tissue that was viewed in this study by others was not collected for this study.

I am sickened by the attack that I, after having spent my entire life caring for children, had something to do with aborting a child and harvesting organs. My medical specialty is the human brain and even I am amazed at what it is capable of doing. Please know these attacks are pathetic attempts to blunt our progress.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Roos_Girl

Shame on the leftists for their lie about this fine Christian Doctor. May God give Dr Carson the strength he needs during his campaign.


61 posted on 08/14/2015 12:02:14 AM PDT by teletech
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To: Kenny

People like trump-et-myself because he is so brass and sounds so aggressive. They are worried and know our nation is weak. If Carson seems weaker than trump, trump will be liked more. I have to remember to believe only quotes in context or interviews. Candidates should be releasing video on youtube every day in response to news and issues.


62 posted on 08/14/2015 12:18:36 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Kenny

He dedicated his career to pediatric neurosurgery.


63 posted on 08/14/2015 12:31:39 AM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls, out Sept 4th, 2015)
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To: hosepipe
Most I know woulnd’t vote for another negro..... if Jesus himself came back as one..

Remember, it was just as evil to have voted against Obama because he was black as it was to vote for him because he was black.

64 posted on 08/14/2015 12:33:25 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Remember, it was just as evil to have voted against Obama because he was black as it was to vote for him because he was black.


Good Point.. Racial politics is insane..
as well as gender politics.. and gimme politics..

Some people are guilty of all three.


65 posted on 08/14/2015 12:39:59 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe
True.... America needs a proctologist not a Brain Surgeon..

True.... America needs deserves a proctologist not a Brain Surgeon..

66 posted on 08/14/2015 12:41:54 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Roos_Girl

If someone else wrote this, who was not likeable like Dr. Carson, people would notice it is not a flat denial of anything, and uses words and phrases that a lawyer would use.


67 posted on 08/14/2015 1:37:43 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: EternalVigilance; Fuzz
Thanks for your posts. I like Ben, but FR become crowded with so many yes men/women that sometimes the truth get difficult to find.

Like it or not, Ben used aborted fetal (baby) tissue in a research he submitted.

68 posted on 08/14/2015 2:48:24 AM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: Roos_Girl

Good and hammer them at every chance. Imagine the gall of attacking Carson on this technicality versus the daily toll of murdered babies the Left grinds out gleefully.


69 posted on 08/14/2015 4:02:39 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Roos_Girl

Good response.


71 posted on 08/14/2015 5:22:31 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: Fuzz

“He might not have collected the samples, but fetal tissue from abortions was used in the study he helped produce. It is stated clearly in the paper under materials and methods.

“Human choroid plexus, ependyma, and nasal mucosa were obtained from two fetuses aborted at the ninth and 17th week of gestation.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ben-carson-performed-experiments-with-aborted-babies-tissue

So what?

People donate their bodies to science and also their aborted tissue. Miscarriages are called spontaneous abortions. Pres. Bush allowed certain fetal tissue to be used for research.

His answers on Facebook and at LifeSitenews.com are well thought out and very reasonable positions to hold.

I’m sure Dr. Carson doesn’t believe in research on fetal tissue for flavor enhancers.


72 posted on 08/14/2015 5:53:28 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: hosepipe

If it comes down to Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders for President then you’ll be voting for Bernie? I hope that you would reconsider making skin deep judgements, and instead choose the conservative over the socialist.


73 posted on 08/14/2015 6:00:38 AM PDT by Thidwick
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To: hosepipe

“Most I know wouldn’t vote for another negro..... if Jesus himself came back as one..”

I would never vote for another “LIBERAL SOCIALISTIC AMERICAN HATING” black or white man or woman, but then I didn’t vote for any of them in the first place.

I would vote for Ben Carson in a flash if they run Donald out of the race. Being a Senator for a few years is not much experience for running our Country. Ben Carson and Trump have more life experience than a new Senator. Governors have a little more executive experience, but no foreign experience. I am not going to vote for Huckabee, Christie, or Walker.


74 posted on 08/14/2015 6:02:53 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: FR_addict

Not going to vote for Jeb Bush either. As Governor, he allowed the state of Florida to kill a young woman by dehydrating and staving her to death. He is not pro-life.


75 posted on 08/14/2015 6:05:11 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: hosepipe
Even, If Sowell or Alan West ran I would demur..

Wow...

76 posted on 08/14/2015 6:06:09 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Roos_Girl
I am sickened by the attack

Well, toughen up, Doc. As your political poll numbers seem to rise, so will the level of attacks.

The media, the leftists, the progressives, the Dems never let 'truth' stand in the way of a good headliner lie.


77 posted on 08/14/2015 6:07:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: FR_addict

“Ben Carson and Trump have more life experience than a new Senator.”

And critical thinking skills. And successes.


78 posted on 08/14/2015 6:08:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Roos_Girl

I can see what he’s saying...it just takes some time to think it through, use your head and use some common sense. Knee jerk reactions will get you the reactions you see on this thread...that Carson is a hypocrite, etc. He’s not.

“Bear this in mind about pathologists,” said Carson. “Regardless of what their ideology is, when they receive tissue, they prepare the tissue. They label it. They mark how it got there. Regardless of whether it’s from a fetus or someone who’s 150 years old, they bank them in tissue blocks. Other people doing comparative research need to have a basis. When pathologists receive specimen, their job is to prepare the specimen. They have no job opining on where the tissue came from.”

The pathologist using that tissue is doing his job, he’s not the one promoting or condoning how he/she got the tissue. Otherwise, that would be like saying, doctors who transplant organs of people who die in a drunk driving car crash, are responsible and condoning drunk driving.


79 posted on 08/14/2015 6:23:40 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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To: Lucky9teen

^^sorry, I cut and pasted this from one of my posts on a FB page and forgot to edit out the knee jerk reaction part.


80 posted on 08/14/2015 6:25:04 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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