Agreed...and the leftists commenting on the interview were outraged by it...Such a bunch of lemmings.
Not bad for a left wing feminist
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Agreed...and the leftists commenting on the interview were outraged by it...Such a bunch of lemmings.
Someone who agrees with you?
Lol, but of course.
Human Fetal Tissue Long Used in Medical Studies
Wednesday, 29 Jul 2015 10:30 AM
"Controversy over Planned Parenthood's supplying fetal tissue for research has focused attention on a little-discussed aspect of science.
"Some of the organization's affiliates, in fewer than five states, provide the tissue, according to Planned Parenthood.
"An anti-abortion group says the group is illegally making a profit from that, and has released covertly recorded videos about it.
"Planned Parenthood says it receives only reimbursements for costs of providing tissue donated by women, and that it has done nothing illegal or improper.
"The controversy led to a Senate bill to cut off federal funding for the organization. Republican leaders say the measure will be voted on before the August recess.
"Some basic facts about fetal tissue in research:
WHAT IS FETAL TISSUE USED FOR?
"Tissue from elective abortions and miscarriages is used for a wide variety of purposes. Scientists who want to regenerate organs and tissues may use it to learn how the human body makes them in the first place. Others look for defects in early development that can cause disease or miscarriage, or study normal development, which can guide therapeutic strategies. The tissue is also used to learn how medicines or toxins affect a fetus.
IS USING FETAL TISSUE A NEW IDEA?
"Hardly. Scientists have worked with it since the 1930s. The 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded for work with fetal tissue that led to developing a vaccine against polio. The National Institutes of Health spent $76 million on human fetal tissue research in fiscal 2014.
WHAT DISEASES ARE BEING STUDIED TODAY?
"AIDS and muscular dystrophy, for example. Some experimental treatments for spinal cord injury and macular degeneration involve transplanting fetal cells into patients. And European researchers recently began a study of putting fetal tissue into patients' brains to treat Parkinson's disease, a strategy that has had mixed results in the past.
HOW IS THE TISSUE PROVIDED?
"It comes from hospitals and abortion clinics. Sometimes it goes directly to researchers, and in other cases it is handled by nonprofit organizations or companies that supply researchers. The groups or companies can be reimbursed for expenses associated with costs like processing and storing the tissue, federal law says.
DOES THE WOMAN HAVE TO AGREE TO USING THE TISSUE FOR RESEARCH?
"Yes, she has to give consent. And the matter can't be raised until after she has decided to have an abortion."
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Snark again?
Since you refuse to read the articles (not sure what the hang up is...), she is a liberal feminist that reads Drudge Report; she has disdain for religion bashers (even though she is atheist); she "gets" that the MSM is liberal and had her own negative experiences with trying to get her voice heard in the early 90's; she believes Jon Stewart is just part of the evolution of "snarkism" that started with David Letterman...much more in there if you can get yourself to actually read an article...
Oh so typical...Ricter gets so defensive that "the left" is being attacked that he responds as if he is the Public Relations team for Planned Parenthood...
Nope, no disagreement with their practices, just another P.R. battle that he must ignite to defend another leftist institution...
See what me and Tsing Tao are talking about, Freddie?
Whereas AAA's comment to which I responded was friendly and endearing? Stop bruising so easily.
Okay, finally. A liberal I disagree with. Are you happy now?
Anything specific? To her credit, she is very specific about which issues she disagrees with...
lol. We both know that you are part of the "easily offended" camp.
I have already explained elsewhere and repeatedly why I think religion is bad and why Jon Stewart is good.