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Donald Trump is angling for a cure to the coronavirus outbreak, but thanks to his hardline anti-abortion stance, he's not interested enough to allow government researchers to use fetal tissue to help fight the virus.
Fetal tissue is obtained with the consent of people who have abortions, making it a frequent target of anti-abortion politicians.
A government immunologist at a National Institutes of Health laboratory has been asking the NIH to lift the ban on fetal tissue research during the pandemic. The Trump administration imposed that ban last year, despite the fact that fetal tissue research is vital.
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However, none of that can happen because one of Trump's key goals is appeasing anti-abortion hardliners. That was evident from his choice of Mike Pence as his running mate - American Independent
Is it any wonder the UK and USA have more deaths than recoveries from Covid-19?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)sheshe2
(83,926 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)he's just pandering to his bronze age Christofascist base.
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)rzemanfl
(29,570 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,094 posts)of how few casess there are that have reached the stage at which it kills people, and of how much longer it takes to recover than to die.
Give it a month - we'll have more recoveries than deaths.
(Not to dispute your basic point, but Trump's ban on the use of fetal tissue has nothing to do with the current relative numbers of deaths to recoveries.)
reACTIONary
(5,786 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)Trump doesnt have an abortion obsession. The man even fucked a porn star without using a condom. Anyone who thinks he hasnt paid for an abortion (probably more than one) among his myriad of partners over the years is delusional.
His only obsession right now is being re-elected and he cant afford to lose his Evangelical base. Theyre the ones with an abortion obsession, and he has to maintain the pretence of holding the same view.
Trump was pro-choice before he ran for the Republican party.
Cha
(297,705 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)scientists in the rest of the world are working hard on a vaccine, and possibly a cure -- and have ample stock of fetal tissue.
I realize this is a nice talking point, but you folks have to realize that not ALL good research and development comes out of the U.S. Certainly the discovery of insulin that has saved millions of lives didn't.