{"id":175970,"date":"2020-10-09T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/09\/oh-snap-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:37:00","slug":"oh-snap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/09\/oh-snap-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Snap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It what is marvelous piece of irony, it tourns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/10\/07\/1009664\/trumps-antibody-treatment-was-tested-using-cells-from-an-abortion\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s Covid-19 treatment was derived from fetal cells from an abortion<\/a>:<br \/><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as \u201cmiracles coming down from God.\u201d If that\u2019s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has taken an increasingly firm line against medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. For example, when it moved in 2019 to curtail the ability of the National Institutes of Health to fund such research, supporters hailed a \u201cmajor pro-life victory\u201d and thanked Trump personally for taking decisive action against what they called the \u201coutrageous and disgusting\u201d practice of \u201cexperimentation using baby body parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when the president faced a deadly encounter with covid-19, his administration raised no objections over the fact that the new drugs also relied on fetal cells, and anti-abortion campaigners were silent too. Most likely, their hypocrisy was unwitting. Many types of medical and vaccine research employ supplies of cells originally acquired from abortion tissue. It would have taken an expert to realize that was the case with Trump\u2019s treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The Trump administration has sought to block or curtail  research that requires tissue from recently performed abortions. In August, for example, a new board created by the Department of Health and Human Services, and stacked with figures opposed to abortion, voted to withhold funding from 13 of 14 proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservative values don&#8217;t actually apply when it&#8217;s <b>THEIR<\/b> ox is gored. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It what is marvelous piece of irony, it tourns out that Donald Trump\u2019s Covid-19 treatment was derived from fetal cells from an abortion: This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as \u201cmiracles coming down from God.\u201d If that\u2019s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,387,440,374],"class_list":["post-175970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-hypocrisy","tag-medical","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}