We know the news moves fast and your timeline is already filled with fly memes, but remember when Donald Trump referred to his top-shelf coronavirus treatments as “miracles coming down from God”? Well, one of those “miracles” was only possible thanks to research that utilized abortion tissue.
That’s according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental antibody treatment Trump received.
It’s worth mentioning as the Trump administration has grown increasingly adversarial towards medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. In 2019, it cut off the ability of the National Institutes of Health to fund the research. The move was celebrated as a “major pro-life victory.”
Funny how those same concerns were nonexistent when the president faced a life-threatening disease, either from the president or his anti-abortion supporters.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Just add it to the list of hypocrisies of Trump and his time in office. That list is starting to resemble a CVS receipt.
succubus
I pray he will rot in jail and then burn in hell
vinnieboiblue
AMEN!
G-Man
That’s an excellent comparison those CVS receipts go on forever.
dinard38
LOL!!! They do go on forever. I’m 6 ft. and the length of the last receipt I printed from the store was as tall as me.
vinnieboiblue
This reminiscent of Cheney getting a heart transplant when CDC rules state someone as sick as Cheney should not be getting them.
Bob
I’ll bet it withered away anyway being transplanted into HIM.
Cam
Because Republican politicians don’t have any actual beliefs. They just say whatever they can to fool their base and get elected.
How many “Pro-Life” Republicans have been caught forcing their girlfriends or mistresses to get abortions?
succubus
not true…azz hole. go away.
Aceventura
Yup but not always true. Probable more than possible.
Abortion for girlfriends yup …Never caught red-handed though … but always suspect.
Hypocrites in politics in general just the GOP more guilty of it.
Fname Optional Lname
Just like the anti-LGBTQ Repubicans who wind up getting caught in a seedy motel with a rent boy from a Craigslist type ad. So much is about appearance with them and the Orange Covidiot is all about appearance, hence the make up and his Buffont hair do(n’t)!
Cam
@succubus
Oh Really? Here’s a list of multiple “Pro-Life” Republicans who pushed women they were dating to get abortions. (From an Article in the UK Guardian on American Politics.)
Republicans abhor abortions – unless it’s for their mistress, of course
Meet Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement; in theory he’s responsible for supporting refugees build a better life in America by providing them with financial and medical assistance. Under previous administrations, this included abortion services. But we live in a God-fearing America now, and Lloyd has made it his mission to ensure refugee women, including unaccompanied minors, don’t get abortions. He even blocked a 17-year-old-girl who had been raped from having an abortion. “The child – the one who is destroyed – is not an aggressor,” he argued in a report. No Scott, the child isn’t an aggressor; you are.
As Mother Jones reported this week, despite his patronizing proselytizing, Lloyd doesn’t always practice what he preaches. As a young man he drove an ex-girlfriend to get an abortion and paid for half of it.
Lloyd joins an illustrious list of Republicans whose stance on abortion is basically: “It’s OK for me; evil for thee.” Earlier this year, for example, it emerged that Elliot Broidy, the former RNC deputy finance chairman paid $1.6m to a Playboy Playmate he had an affair with, after she aborted his child.
Then there is Tim Murphy, the pro-life Pennsylvania Republican who resigned last year after it was revealed he had urged his mistress to consider an abortion. And let’s not forget the charming Scott DesJarlais. According to testimony during his divorce trial, the Tennessee congressman supported his ex-wife’s decision to get two abortions before their marriage. The former doctor also allegedly pressured a 24-year-old patient he was having an affair with to get an abortion. Even after all that information came out DesJarlais still had the gall to vote for anti-abortion bills and boast of having a “100% pro-life voting record.”
My2CentsWorth
Maybe most – including the most disgusting one of the lot – never got caught. Speaking of the most disgusting one of the lot, I wonder if the claim of getting coronavirus was a sham so that he could present himself as this VERY HE MAN. Putin can get away with that but some people should not try because only the extreme idiots would fall for it.
It might be impossible to fake it because so many of the hospital staff would have to be in on the sham. However, if only a very few people were allowed to attend to him it might have been possible.
Prax07
Republicans are stupid sheep. Whatever their leaders say is gospel, whether it’s actually true or not. Trump could say the sky is green, and that Democrats only say it’s blue, and his cult will believe it and preach it.
Catholicslutbox
Fear has more to do with it than anything.
Anyone that opposes him is branded a rhino or “fake news” and risk re-election.
The people that follow him blindly are hicks, and oblivious LGBT/POC.
Mack
Sorry but this information was proven wrong today. They did not use abortion tissues.
Kangol2
From MIT’s Technology Review–the cells were derived from an aborted fetus, so Regeneron may claim they aren’t “fetal” cells but they were derived from an abortion, no matter how you spin it (URL divided, connect for access: https:
//www.technologyreview.com/ 2020/10/07/ 1009664/trumps-antibody-treatment-was-tested-using-cells-from-an-abortion/):
“But cells originally derived from a fetus were used in another way. According to Regeneron, laboratory tests used to assess the potency of its antibodies employed a standardized supply of cells called HEK 293T, whose origin was kidney tissue from an abortion in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Since then, the 293T cells have been “immortalized,” meaning they keep dividing in the lab, somewhat like a cancer, and have undergone other genetic changes and additions.”
Cam
It’s cute when Republican trolls try to come in and claim something isn’t true, but can never post a link. Because you’re lying.
missvamp
he’s the biggest liar, hypocrite & con artist in history. he wants to put a supreme court justice in place who is in favor or killing roe v wade, yet this drug may use abortion related materials. ugh. what bs.