New restriction on fetal tissue research 'was thePresident's decision'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post


By Amy Goldstein June 5 at 3:03 PM

The Trump administration on Wednesday ended funding of medical research by government scientists using fetal tissue and canceled a multimillion-dollar contract for a university laboratory that relies on the material to test new HIV therapies.

The determination to tighten federal support for an ideologically polarizing aspect of medical research was made by President Trump himself, a White House spokesman confirmed.

“This was the president’s decision,” said spokesman Judd Deere, calling it “another important policy ... to protect the dignity of human life.”

The change represents a victory for antiabortion advocates key to the president’s political base, who immediately lauded the change, and a major disappointment to scientists who say the tissue collected from elective abortions has been instrumental to unlocking the secrets of diseases that range from AIDS to cancers to Zika, as well as to developing vaccines and treatments for illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease.


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[lordsummerisle]

1. Medical research is overrated anyway

[mahannah]

2. "to protect the dignity of human life" ?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. I seriously doubt that trump came up with this himself.

I see the fingerprints of the christian right (which is neither) all over this.

I am so sick of religious half-wits trying to influence something they neither understand nor appreciate.

Keep your fucking religion out of our government.

[Botany]

6. "Keep your fucking religion out of our government."

Yup!

If you want to believe in a great creature that lives on a cloud someplace and that
being is all powerful but you can not see, touch, hear, smell, or see any of that creature's
work fine that is called faith and it has helped a lot of people for many years but do
not let your faith tell others on how to live their lives. You are not God.

BTW so we should just throw away that tissue now?

[kskiska]

4. I remember the suspense

when George W. pondered whether to ban embryonic stem cell research. He made a special TV appearance after days of mulling this over in his little brain to finally announce his decision to ban it.

[SergeStorms]

5. Destroying any evidence...

of his aborted love-children perhaps? That's preposterous. Trump has never loved anything but himself his entire life.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. They should make fetal tissue president

Trump should step down and honor the fetal tissue's right to be a dignified president.

It can only be better than Trump, since Trump has NO dignity.

[usaf-vet]

8. Ya! Right "the dignity of human life". Tell that to the kids in cages on our Southern Borders.

The republicans are not pro-life they are pro-birth.
Proven by the fact that they ignore the welfare of the newborn and its mother.

The whole "pro-life" talking point is a political meme to please its base.
Their actions after birth show how little they really care for the life and welfare of the child, mother, and family.

[Hugin]

9. They say it was Old Yeller's "decision"...

Which implies a choice was presented. By whom? My guess is Pence.