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niyad

(113,463 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 11:39 AM Aug 2015

Abortion Is Good For Everyone, It’s Science

Now THIS is pro-life


Abortion Is Good For Everyone, It’s Science


a lot, actually


Abortion is a wonderful thing. It’s a safe and simple medical procedure that allows women to control whether and when to have babies, and, in certain cases when a pregnancy becomes life-threatening, it saves women’s lives. That’s why a third of American women have abortions, and almost every single one of them (95 percent) are glad they did.

But wait, there’s more! You don’t have to be a woman with an unwanted or life-threatening pregnancy to benefit from abortion. In fact, you don’t have to be a woman at all. Everyone benefits from abortion. Thanks to women who choose to have abortions and then generously donate their aborted fetuses to medical research, scientists have been able to use fetal tissue to develop all kinds of treatments and cures for diseases. Isn’t science a wonderful thing? Check it:
Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted. […]
Researchers use fetal tissue to understand cell biology and human development. Others use it to look for treatments for AIDS. Research on spinal cord injuries and eyesight-robbing macular degeneration involves transplanting fetal cells into patients. […]

Vaccines have been one of the chief public benefits of fetal tissue research. Vaccines for hepatitis A, German measles, chickenpox and rabies, for example, were developed using cell lines grown from tissue from two elective abortions, one in England and one in Sweden, that were performed in the 1960s.
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Isn’t that marvelous, boys and girls? Abortion helped researchers develop a vaccine to reduce miscarriages, so women who want to have babies can do that. Talk about a win-win! Fetal tissue also led to the development of the polio vaccine, and nobody wants to go back to the old-timey days of polio. Not even Ted Cruz! Why, just look at his new ad showing what a terrible thing polio used to be:



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http://wonkette.com/592834/abortion-is-good-for-everyone-its-science?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=august+12
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