Trump waffles on defunding Planned Parenthood

Retired neurosurgeon and Republican candidate Ben Carson took heat Thursday after it was revealed that he had performed research using fetal tissue in 1992.

Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and science blogger, posted an excerpt and screenshots of one of Carson’s academic research papers that noted how he used “human choroid plexus ependyma and nasal mucosa from two fetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation”.

The Washington Post asked Carson about the conflict between his 1992 study and his 2015 claim, and Carson tossed up a word salad ridiculous as any master politician could manage.

Carson said he had not conducted research on fetal tissue since then, and he drew a distinction between aborting fetuses to obtain their tissue and using fetal tissue that was previously obtained. Experimental medical research using fetal tissue has been linked to helping patients with Parkinson’s disease and paralysis.

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Gunter wrote that fetal tissue research has recently helped develop a vaccine against Ebola and is now being used to develop treatments for blindness, HIV and other illnesses. Congressional Republicans have vowed to probe Planned Parenthood officials further following the August recess.

The videos have also inspired outrage from women’s health advocates, who say the materials are heavily edited and portray Planned Parenthood and their activities inaccurately. How can you believe that that’s just an irrelevant mass of cells? Many anti-abortion activists also oppose emergency contraception, either out of opposition to any birth control, or because they believe that it may interfere with the implantation of a fertilized egg, something it has never been shown to do.

Carson said the previous fetal tissue research does not contradict his pro-life views. Last month, he appeared on “The Kelly File” to discuss how absolutely awful and definitely immoral and probably useless it is to do any kind of research on this fetal tissue. Each day, O’Donnell claims, StemExpress issues a “task list” of tissues and organs its employees need to procure, and the clients requesting those organs. Regardless of what their ideology is, when they receive tissue, they prepare the tissue. This has everything to do with how it’s acquired.

“I encourage people to go and read about Margaret Sanger and go and read about the beginnings of this organization so that you know what you’re dealing with”, Carson said.