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08-13-2015, 02:12 PM
WASHINGTON -- Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson says that most medical research can be conducted without using fetal tissue, which has been in the news recently after a series of secretly taped but edited videos showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing how to legally provide aborted tissue to researchers. He has called (http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/16/ben-carson-talks-planned-parenthood-video-kelly-file) the benefits of such research "over promised," and has said the videos have made him wonder "how far we have drifted in terms of our humanity."
But according to Dr. Jen Gunter (https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/ben-carson-did-research-on-17-week-fetal-tissue/), an OB-GYN and pain medicine physician, the Republican presidential candidate published a study with three other colleagues in 1992 that described using “human choroid plexus ependyma and nasal mucosa from two fetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation.”
Fetal tissue has been used for a variety of purposes, including research on an Ebola vaccine, blindness and HIV.
Last month, Carson railed against Planned Parenthood and pro-choice advocates by describing a fetus in the 17th week of gestation.
“At 17 weeks, you’ve got a nice little nose and little fingers and hands and the heart’s beating," he said on Fox News. "It can respond to environmental stimulus. How can you believe that that’s just an irrelevant mass of cells? That’s what they want you to believe, when in fact it is a human being.”
Carson's presidential campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Like nearly all of his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, Carson supports defunding Planned Parenthood. He currently ranks second among likely Republican primary voters in Iowa, according to a CNN poll (http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/politics/iowa-donald-trump-poll-cnn-orc/) released earlier this week.
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But according to Dr. Jen Gunter (https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/ben-carson-did-research-on-17-week-fetal-tissue/), an OB-GYN and pain medicine physician, the Republican presidential candidate published a study with three other colleagues in 1992 that described using “human choroid plexus ependyma and nasal mucosa from two fetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation.”
Fetal tissue has been used for a variety of purposes, including research on an Ebola vaccine, blindness and HIV.
Last month, Carson railed against Planned Parenthood and pro-choice advocates by describing a fetus in the 17th week of gestation.
“At 17 weeks, you’ve got a nice little nose and little fingers and hands and the heart’s beating," he said on Fox News. "It can respond to environmental stimulus. How can you believe that that’s just an irrelevant mass of cells? That’s what they want you to believe, when in fact it is a human being.”
Carson's presidential campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Like nearly all of his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, Carson supports defunding Planned Parenthood. He currently ranks second among likely Republican primary voters in Iowa, according to a CNN poll (http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/politics/iowa-donald-trump-poll-cnn-orc/) released earlier this week.
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