Trump’s Covid-19 Treatment Included Abortion-Derived Stem Cells

Trump, Covid-19, and a 1970s Dutch abortion

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review reported that Trump’s antibody treatment was “tested using cells originally derived from an abortion.”

“The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue,” they added. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, who supplied the drug, confirmed the information.

Trump received anti-coronavirus antibodies that were manufactured from a hamster’s ovaries. To test the antibodies, Regeneron used HEK 293T cells, which came from kidney tissue of an aborted human fetus.

Interestingly enough, the aborted fetus isn’t from a recent procedure, but rather an abortion from the Netherlands in the 1970s. The cells from that abortion decades ago have continued to regenerate and mutate in a process known as “immortalization.”

The Trump administration has been hostile to stem cell research. In 2019, a new policy required an ethics review for any research that involved fetal tissue cells at the United National Institutes of Health. The ethics board was stacked with, of course, anti-abortion activists.