Trump’s coronavirus treatment was based on a pharmaceutical drug developed with cells derived from an aborted baby

Trump’s coronavirus treatment was based on a pharmaceutical drug developed with cells derived from an aborted baby

By Julio Severo

U.S. President Donald Trump has been treated with an anti-COVID-19 experimental drug called Regeneron (or REGN-COV2), developed by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron with cells derived from an aborted baby. He called it a God-given miracle cure. What now will his pro-life supporters think? How will they respond?

Because Trump was touting and propagandizing so much hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus or COVID-19, everybody was expecting him to use it for his own COVID-19 infection. But he used a drug that is opposite to his pro-life speeches.

After falling ill from a coronavirus infection, Trump received Regeneron. The treatment proved effective, with Trump returning to his office within a matter of days. He has since praised Regeneron as “miracle coming down from God.”

Yet, could anything connected to abortion, remotely or not, be a blessing of God?

Regeneron administered to Trump was tested using a supply of HEK 293T human cells, which have been cloned and modified in pharmaceutical labs for decades. These cells originate from a baby aborted in 1973, the exact year when abortion was legalized in the United States.

Trump has made many pro-life speeches as a Republican candidate and as president, although before entering politics he expressed pro-abortion views.

In January 2020, Trump became the first U.S. president to speak at the March for Life, claimingthat “unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House” and “every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.”

Despite these strong pro-life stances, Trump touted the success of Regeneron in a video filmed at the White House on October 7, 2020 in which he promised it would be made free to Americans.

Given the Trump administration’s pro-life resistance to research involving tissue from aborted babies, it seemed extremely strange that Trump, who has widespread support from the pro-life movement, has lauded Regeneron as God’s miracle.

In 2019, Trump cut federal funding for cancer treatments based on tissue from aborted babies. A special commission was established within the U.S. Health Department — staffed with many pro-life specialists — to monitor and block research projects based on abortion. So far, it has already rejected 13 of 14 research proposals.

Yet, with Regeneron the story seems to have changed radically.

“Within a very short period of time they gave me Regeneron, it’s called Regeneron, and other things too but I think this was the key,” Trump said of his treatment. “It was, like, unbelievable. I felt good immediately. I felt as good three days ago as I do now.”

Regeneron has received $450million from the Trump administration for up to 300,000 doses of its pharmaceutical drug.

The challenge posed by Regeneron is: How will the Trump administration conciliate its pro-life speeches with the promotion of a pharmaceutical drug based on the tissue of an aborted baby? How will Trump’s pro-life supporters respond to it? How will his evangelical supporters respond to his comparison of Regeneron with God’s miracle?

As to me, even though I think that Joe Biden, who is pro-abortion, would see no problem in using pharmaceutical drugs based on aborted babies, I would prefer to see Trump using hydroxychloroquine than using Regeneron. Abortion is not pleasing and ethical in any form, whether in an abortion clinic or pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

My hope and prayer, as a pro-life evangelical who supports Trump’s pro-life speeches, is that his pro-life advisers can advise him to apply to himself the same ethical principle to block in the U.S. Health Department any treatment based, even in the most remote way possible, on the abortion of an innocent baby.

With information from DailyMail and Deutsche Welle.

Portuguese version of this article: Tratamento do coronavírus de Trump foi baseado em uma droga farmacêutica desenvolvida com células derivadas de um bebê abortado

Source: Last Days Watchman

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