15 Attorney Generals Call for End of Fetal Tissue Research Ban to Aid Medical Response to COVID-19
Press release from the Attorney General’s Office:
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today led a coalition of 15 attorneys general in sending a letter to President Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services calling on the Administration to end its research ban on fetal tissue to aid the nation’s medical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Attorneys General argue that this exemption could help scientists develop vaccines and study the virus’ impacts on pregnant women and children.
“As we work together to combat the unprecedented threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a vaccine and therapeutic treatments for the virus has to be a top priority,” said Attorney General Becerra. “In order to achieve this important goal, we need to make sure that scientists and medical professionals have access to the research and resources necessary to protect the population and safeguard the most vulnerable among us, including pregnant women and children.”
Scientists at the National Institute of Health who are working on potential therapies for COVID-19 have been appealing to the administration for permission to work on fetal tissue, arguing that the current ban hampers our nation’s ability to address COVID-19. Research using fetal tissue has led to the development of other vaccines such as those for polio, rubella, and measles.
According to the American Medical Association, “fetal tissue has also been used to study the mechanism of viral infections and to diagnose viral infections and inherited diseases, as well as to develop transplant therapies,” – work that is pertinent to the current COVID-19 health crisis. Recognizing the importance of these scientific contributions, in 1993 members of Congress on both sides of the aisle voted to legalize fetal tissue research. The attorneys general argue that the June 2019 ban impedes necessary research efforts during this unprecedented public health crisis, and urge the administration to lift the ban.
In sending the letter, Attorney General Becerra is joined by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.
A copy of the letter is available here.
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“The Attorneys General argue that this exemption COULD help scientists develop vaccines and study the virus’ impacts on pregnant women and children.”
Did you see where it said Could? Just another liberal excuse to circumvent the law!!!
🕯🌳What I read was it did lead to the development of vaccines for polio,rubella and measles so why not let them try?🖖Didn’t see the word could.👁
Willie,
thanks.
Go back to your bridge, Troll!!!!
you are right… culling everyone with a cough COULD help stop the corona
Nope. Most infected people will recover, and the recoveries become herd immunity.
Stupidity just got owned again.
So far there is zero evidence of immunity being conferred, no corona type viruses do that.
Read and learn, genius.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615375/what-is-herd-immunity-and-can-it-stop-the-coronavirus/
Und h’yere’s uh-nuther wun: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/health/coronavirus-immunity-antibodies.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_NN_p_20200326&instance_id=17074&nl=morning-briefing®i_id=60311233§ion=topNews&segment_id=22910&te=1&user_id=f4de3165fe8f5d0feb7077a56a735ae9&fbclid=IwAR1e1cywMra_Mx5a7b1o47gHZg_lhohRx8tnNSacMfu5xjWE4sG4xW4ZleM
it was clearly a joke. so who got owned. but it is true, if they killed everyone on the planet then nobody would have to worry about corona
But that’s the level of logic you’ve consistently shown on this topic.
It’s not a law, it’s a lame-brained executive order put in place by Trump to pander to anti-science fetus freaks.
So your president thinks its ok for old people to die from the corona virus but you think it would be bad for ALREADY DEAD FETUSES TO HELP DEVELOP A VACCINE????
You actually think that? Are you SURE?
I hate to complain, but I will anyway, it should read Attorneys General!!! Just saying is all!!!
Ha. These republicans and there right for life are now asking for even the older folks to go back to work and risk there lives for the sake of the economy. What a bunch of phony’s
They care about human life so much…….
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Go back to your bridge, Troll!!!! Coming from a super Troll that lives out on 36 with the rest of the potheads!!!!!!!!!!!!
They fail to point out where these studies benefit mankind now. The fact that the patent for adrenochome was up Mar. 22,2020, they probably want to try to make their own as it is very lucrative.
WTF does adrenochrome have to do with vaccines?
Doesn’t the proper medical response to any virus consist of, 1) Prevention. Keeping yourself as healthy as possible, regardless of your official, “compromised,” state, 2) Rest, 3) Fluids, and 4) The relief of symptoms?
Although I’m not opposed to it, why do we need to do fetal tissue research, to combat another seasonal bug?
Sumthin’ ain’t right, here.
“fetal tissue has also been used to study the mechanism of viral infections and to diagnose viral infections…”
“Research using fetal tissue has led to the development of other vaccines such as those for polio, rubella, and measles.”
Vaccines and more understanding of this virus enhancing therapeutic regimes could prevent the second or third wave of this pandemic from being as destructive as this one, and speed a return to a functioning economy.