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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
KEYWORDS: 1992; 2016carson; 2016election; abortion; agitprop; alreadyposted; bencarson; braking; cantbepresident; carson; deathpanels; election2016; fetaltissue; karlrovesucks; myths; ntsa; obamacare; plannedparenthood; tumors; zerocare
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To: tdscpa

“Black, no experience. We tried that. Didn’t work.”

We tried a muslim communist. That didn’t work, no surprise there.


81 posted on 08/14/2015 6:37:10 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Roos_Girl

Maybe Dr. Carson used fetal tissue or maybe not. Whatever.

The more pressing point is - is that he is not opposed to a law BANNING the use of aborted babies being harvested for parts like the local salvage yard.


82 posted on 08/14/2015 6:45:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: wastedyears

> He’d be better suited as surgeon general.

With the notable exception of Cruz, he’d be a much better president than any of the Republicans running, and certainly better than anything the demonRATS can dredge up.


83 posted on 08/14/2015 7:31:54 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply i)
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To: huldah1776
Candidates should be releasing video on youtube every day in response to news and issues and false accusations.

Fixed it.

84 posted on 08/14/2015 7:32:22 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: hoosiermama

The Bushes and abortion go way back. Prescott Bush was PP first national secretary. His son George HW was a pro-abortion Rockefeller republican. His grandsons George W. and Jeb are pro-abortion and Jeb has been been working for pro-abortion Foundations for years. All the Bush women are pro-abortion and pro queer “marriage”. Every last one of them, to include 90 year old Barbara Bush.


85 posted on 08/14/2015 7:48:36 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: hoosiermama

But really, is there any difference between a tumor and a baby? Where does science come down on this quandary?
If I didn’t know better, I would suspect that Dr. Carson is the target of a high-tech lynching. Bob


86 posted on 08/14/2015 7:54:32 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("See her for a moment Then she melts away. The ghost of Charlotte Corday." Al Stewart)
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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”.

He said last night on O’Reilly he had nothing to do with the research. He said his name shouldn’t have been included in the article because his only role was taking tissue to the Research team and giving it to them. He then left and did more operations on brains. He has nothing at all to do with comparing anything. Nothing at all. He was not part of the study. A med tech could have delivered the tumor to the office down the hall that did Research. Meant nothing. Carson is being smeared by the Left and the Karl Rove crowd because he is polling higher than their handpicked RINOs in Iowa.


87 posted on 08/14/2015 7:56:31 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: hoosiermama

“By the way Ben if you’re reading this Prescott Bush was a founding father of PP ( treasurer). Shared the same philosophy as Margaret”

BTW, that claim was also a hit piece by the communist Drew Pearson that cost Prescott an election. A claim he denied.


88 posted on 08/14/2015 7:56:44 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: nhwingut

My views exactly. But if he gets the Republican nomination, I will GLADLY vote for him.

The way he dealt with this was astute. Immediate, direct, to the point, slap down of his accusers and the false accusation.


89 posted on 08/14/2015 8:01:27 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: wastedyears

What skills doesn’t he have that the other bloviators do?

Politician isn’t a “skill”.


90 posted on 08/14/2015 8:02:33 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: hoosiermama

Drew Pearson:

DP released a hit piece on Prescott Bush on the eve of the voting.

Roosevelt called him a chronic liar.

DP ‘published’ the soldier-slapping by Patton incident.

McArthur sued him for defamation.

Joe McCarthy got into a physical fight with him.

DP wrote that RR’s office had a homosexual ring operating:

By the mid-1950s, Pearson’s appetite for championing liberal and populist causes had waned considerably. In a column attacking California Governor Ronald Reagan released on October 31, 1967, Pearson claimed that a “homosexual ring has been operating in his (Reagan’s) office, including a claim that a tape recording existed of “a sex orgy which had taken place at a cabin near Lake Tahoe, leased by two members of Reagan’s staff. Eight men were involved.”[8] Later press reports revealed that the alleged tape that Pearson had mentioned in his column did not exist.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Pearson_(journalist)


91 posted on 08/14/2015 8:04:31 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Please, I’ve spent countless time at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for vertigo; this is not going to get people to donate I don’t think; certainly not me anyway. :(


92 posted on 08/14/2015 8:19:18 AM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: hosepipe
Jindal has the same problem.. good man but nope.. not this time..

A wise birdie told me if Jindal or someone just like him [i.e. Santorum, Huckabee, or Carson; staunch pro-lifers] doesn't get in the White House in 2016, we can all expect the End Times to come on with more intensity. Especially considering the recent undercover #PPSellsBabyParts videos, I agree this could be so (we are getting a warning that couldn't be more clear); we've run out of time, with all our sins and transgressions against the Lord, without correction very soon, we are eventually going to be hit, and heavily so.

And I could care less about skin color, btw; not that it matters either way, but Obama ain't black, anyway. He's a fraud in every way. Pray!
93 posted on 08/14/2015 8:40:33 AM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: TexasGator

“Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947. He was also an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.

https://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/thefamily/media/thefamily_document007a.pdf


94 posted on 08/14/2015 8:41:05 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Thidwick

If it comes down to Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders for President then you’ll be voting for Bernie?


If that happens I’ll start smoking whatever you are...
Cause being doped up... might actually be Intelligent..


95 posted on 08/14/2015 8:58:49 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Popman

Even, If Sowell or Alan West ran I would demur.. Wow...


Yeah.. I hate myself but it’s true..


96 posted on 08/14/2015 9:01:33 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: NKP_Vet

https://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/thefamily/media/thefamily_document007a.pdf";

“On September 8, 2004, Rather reported on 60 Minutes Wednesday that a series of memos critical of President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service record had been discovered in the personal files of Lt. Bush’s former commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian.[34] Once copies of the documents were made available on the internet, their authenticity was quickly called into question.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather


97 posted on 08/14/2015 9:06:59 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: mlizzy

Yeah he’s a mulatto... as is Sharpton and Jackson.. Farakhan.. and Rev. Wright.. Their Blackish.. but their also Whiteish..

About the End Times?...

“Deal with today, tomorrow will take care of its self”- Jesus (paraphrased)


98 posted on 08/14/2015 9:07:12 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Roos_Girl

A man to be proud of and respected. I would vote for Dr. Carson in a heart beat. No pun intended. I wish the person occupying the white house would be man enough to realize there are much better men than he.


99 posted on 08/14/2015 9:11:06 AM PDT by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: tdscpa

Obama’s problem have never been that he didn’t have “experience.” His problem is that he’s a marxist/commie, leftie, muzzie-sympathizing, American-hater...who has systematically gone about tearing down this country, its traditional values, and any good it’s ever done in the world. That’s Obama! So-called “lack of experience” has nothing at all to do with who he is, what he is, and what his goals are to “fundamentally transform” this country!


100 posted on 08/14/2015 9:18:38 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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