Biden Destroys Trump’s Pro-Life Progress
In just a few months as president, Biden has revved up America’s abortion machine, temporarily slowed during the Trump administration. All progress is being rolled back.
President Trump enacted a regulation closing a loophole in Title X that allowed medical professionals at government-supported clinics, unable to perform abortions themselves, to refer women to abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood. Last week, Biden revoked this rule.
Beyond simply resuming Obama-era policies, Biden is expanding abortion access through telemedicine. With a new FDA policy, abortifacients become available with remote appointments DIY abortion drug Mifepristone delivered right to one’s door. This new update is being marketed as an effort to protect women’s lives from exposure to COVID-19.
Biden has also lifted Trump’s 2019 restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for federally funded medical research. As of Friday, taxpayer-funded laboratories will be able to use fetal tissue from abortions in their research. While not always supported by the government, fetal tissue has been used in vaccine research since the 1960s and has contributed to vaccines for rubella, rabies, and hepatitis. But in the 21st century, technology has improved, and such methods are increasingly outdated, as other research options are available. The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines did not use fetal tissue in the research process. Instead, they used innovative mRNA vectors — the first widespread vaccines to do so. The creators of the recently suspended Johnson & Johnson vaccine used aborted fetal cells in their research.
