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September 10, 2021 – 20:54

The U.S. government sued southwestern Texas on Thursday in a bid to block its new law banning abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told a news conference in Washington that Texas law “is clearly unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s long-standing precedent” that gives women in the United States the constitutional right to abortion.

He said the Justice Department, in filing a lawsuit against the country’s second-largest state, “has a duty to uphold the rule of law”. He said “all provisions” of the law were troubling.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote last week, allowed the law to remain in force, a decision that was welcomed by anti-abortion advocates seeking to overturn the historic 1973 court ruling that states that women in the US enjoy the constitutional right to abortion.

Those who support abortion rights in the United States, including President Joe Biden, criticized the court ruling.

President Biden warned that the law would cause “unconstitutional chaos” because it entitles private citizens, not government officials, to enforce the law by filing civil lawsuits against those who help a woman have an abortion after six weeks, be it doctors perform the procedure, or those who take a woman to a clinic.

The law rewards individuals who win the lawsuit with at least $ 10,000 and makes no exceptions for rape or incest cases.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that the state will try to “eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas” by arresting and prosecuting them. He defended the law, saying women who were raped would still have six weeks to terminate the pregnancy. Many women do not realize they have become pregnant within six weeks.

Those who support abortion rights in the U.S. fear that the Supreme Court ruling provides for the overturning or limitation of the 1973 ruling that favors the right to abortion.

In its new term, which begins next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy approved by the southern state of Mississippi. / voa

Kosovo Police tonight in a hotel in Podujeva has arrested the highly wanted person Besim Hajdari “Ciprra”.

Indeksonline reported that “Ciprra” at the time of arrest was staying in a room with a 17-year-old girl.

Through sources, Indeksonline learns that the 17-year-old’s initials are AT

The 17-year-old who was in the room is witnessing to the Police station.

Indeksonline learns that in her testimony, she showed that “Ciprra” was holding her violently and that she had forced her to have an abortion.

Further, it is learned that she performed the abortion in a private hospital.

The detainee is wanted for pl.agosje.

He has about 60 criminal offenses in the Police./Indeksonline/

09. 10. 2020.

A fierce opponent of abortion, AND THIS DOESN’T MATTER HIM: An experimental drug received by Trump developed with cells obtained by ABORTION

One of the drugs that US President Donald Trump took as a potential cure for the corona virus was developed using human cells originally obtained through abortion. The American president and many of his supporters have repeatedly condemned abortion.

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The drug is a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies developed by “Regeneron” and is still in the testing phase. The president received an infusion of eight grams with the exception of “compassionate use” when he was hospitalized over the weekend.

Stem cells used for drug development are known as HEK-293T cells used in laboratories. These cells were originally developed from the kidneys of the embryo after an abortion performed in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

Since the beginning of his term, Trump has been trying to restrict women’s access to abortion. The last such attempt happened last month when he nominated conservative Catholic judge Amy Connie Barrett for the Supreme Court. Supporters of the movement against the right to abortion are one of the bases of Trump’s support.

Photo: Evan Vucci / Tanjug / AP

The Republican Party Platform for 2020 explicitly opposes embryonic stem cell research and calls for a ban on federal funding for such tests.

In 2019, the Trump administration stopped funding government studies that include embryonic stem cells, leaving the scientists who worked on them without about 31 million dollars in research.

– We stopped federal funding for fetal tissue research, which everyone thought was so important. We oppose the abortion lobby – the president told supporters in January this year.

The HEK-293T cell line is “immortalized”, which means that they are being developed in the laboratory today. “Regeneron” said that the company does not consider the cells “tissue”.

– HEK-293T cell lines that are available today are not considered fetal tissue, and we did not normally use fetal tissue – said “Regeneron” spokeswoman Alexandra Bowie.

The development of the “Regeneron” antibody cocktail was supported by a $ 450 million grant from the Directorate for Advanced Biomedical Research and Development (Barda).

At least five candidates for the kovid-19 vaccine used either HEK-293T cells or cells developed by Jensen from an 1985 abortion. In April, an influential U.S. conference of Catholic bishops wrote to the U.S. government asking it to “encourage” vaccine candidates developed without the use of such cells.

“Regeneron” has been cooperating with the American government for years on the development of monoclonal antibody therapies. Researchers from this company and the American government used the same line of stem cells in the development of therapy against the Ebola virus, reports the “Guardian”.

Regeneron’s experimental drug against coronavirus is not available to the public and has been tested on only 275 people to date.

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