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The Use Of Aborted Fetuses In Medical Research Has ‘Saved The Lives And Health Of Millions’
...In an [URL='http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1510279#.VcvA8l6Hh3c.twitter']editorial published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, lawyer and bioethicist Alta Charo, who’s currently affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lays out a strong case for fetal tissue research from a moral perspective.[/URL]
According to Charo, it’s morally wrong to oppose fetal tissue research because that opposition stands in the way of scientific developments that have saved millions of lives.
“Virtually every person in this country has benefited from research using fetal tissue,” Charo writes. “Every child who’s been spared the risks and misery of chickenpox, rubella, or polio can thank the Nobel Prize recipients and other scientists who used such tissue in research yielding the vaccines that protect us (and give even the unvaccinated the benefit of herd immunity). This work has been going on for nearly a century, and the vaccines it produced have been in use nearly as long. Any discussion of the ethics of fetal tissue research must begin with its unimpeachable claim to have saved the lives and health of millions of people.”
Ironically, some of the advances in vaccines that Charo references have helped protect unborn children in the womb. Before fetal tissue helped develop an effective vaccine against rubella, for instance, this infection caused 5,000 miscarriages each year.
Please note that this article is quoted from the "prestigious New England Journal of Medicine".
Note also that its very well documented and referenced.
I hope people will take the time to read the FACTS.
...In an [URL='http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1510279#.VcvA8l6Hh3c.twitter']editorial published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, lawyer and bioethicist Alta Charo, who’s currently affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lays out a strong case for fetal tissue research from a moral perspective.[/URL]
According to Charo, it’s morally wrong to oppose fetal tissue research because that opposition stands in the way of scientific developments that have saved millions of lives.
“Virtually every person in this country has benefited from research using fetal tissue,” Charo writes. “Every child who’s been spared the risks and misery of chickenpox, rubella, or polio can thank the Nobel Prize recipients and other scientists who used such tissue in research yielding the vaccines that protect us (and give even the unvaccinated the benefit of herd immunity). This work has been going on for nearly a century, and the vaccines it produced have been in use nearly as long. Any discussion of the ethics of fetal tissue research must begin with its unimpeachable claim to have saved the lives and health of millions of people.”
Ironically, some of the advances in vaccines that Charo references have helped protect unborn children in the womb. Before fetal tissue helped develop an effective vaccine against rubella, for instance, this infection caused 5,000 miscarriages each year.
Please note that this article is quoted from the "prestigious New England Journal of Medicine".
Note also that its very well documented and referenced.
I hope people will take the time to read the FACTS.
