[–] NeutralObserver 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
You don't need fetal tissue to make vaccines. They just use yeast to produce the vaccines and attenuated vaccines now. There's tons of alternatives to using fetal tissue that are much better.
[–] CaptOblivious [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Um, the polio vaccine WAS created using fetal tissues, he PRAISED the polio vaccine DIRECTLY.
As far as yeast goes, for production of vaccines, yes that is true for many vaccines (but not all).
However for the research that it takes to get to the point where production can be done in other than human cells, it still takes human cells.
[–] CaptOblivious [S] 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Because I know that 50% of us wont click the link for whatever reason, The facts...
At last night’s Republican presidential debate, Mike Huckabee offered a convenient solution to all of America’s health care concerns: Rather than focus on improving access to health care, why not just cure all the diseases that make people sick?
“We don't have a health care crisis in America, we have a health crisis,” he said. “And until we deal with the health of Americans and do what we did with polio — when I was a little kid, we eradicated it. You know how much money we spent on polio last year in America? We didn't spend any. We’ve saved billions of dollars.”
Huckabee conveniently failed to mention that we wouldn’t have the polio vaccine — among others — without fetal tissue research, a practice he wants to ban and has roundly criticized in the wake of deceptive sting videos targeting Planned Parenthood.
“One of the earliest advances with fetal tissue was to use fetal kidney cells to create the first poliovirus vaccines, which are now estimated to save 550,000 lives worldwide every year,”
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[–] CaptOblivious [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
That sucks but if she was that susceptible to the virus getting the live virus may well have killed her outright, would that be better?
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[–] turtlesarepureevil 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Except those in endemic, shithole regions of the world.
[–] tex 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
What a misleading, bullshit headline. Fetal tissue is absolutely unnecessary for vaccine research or production. The article even admits it.
Much of what we know about preventing hypothermia comes from research conducted by Nazis where they exposed captured prisoners to the cold. We don't go around saying torture is okay because otherwise we wouldn't have North Face jackets and all freeze to death.
[–] CaptOblivious [S] 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago (edited ago)
Um, the polio vaccine WAS created using fetal tissues, he PRAISED the polio vaccine DIRECTLY.
Go try to spin something else, between this and his declaring to his base that he will ignore the laws and Constitution and declare a fertilized egg to be a full person the day he is sworn in huckleberry is a lost cause. There aren't enough evangelicals to elect a president.
[–] tex 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Unnecessarily. They used fetal tissue unnecessarily. Try to keep up.