Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson is now being pinned down for experimenting with aborted foetal tissues for a research he conducted back in 1992. But the pro-life candidate is defending himself, saying the "pathetic attacks" being employed by abortionists are only distorting people's views against Planned Parenthood and abortion.
Carson published a paper in the November 1992 Human Pathology Journal, and in it, he detailed the use of cells taken from two aborted babies.
"Human choroid plexus ependyma and nasal mucosa were obtained from two foetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation," he wrote.
His paper was re-discovered and shared online by Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN who has always stood up for abortion-on-demand. But Carson, who has professed strong views against abortion and the illegal sale of foetal body parts, said "there is absolutely no contradiction between the research I worked on in 1992 and my pro-life views."
"My only involvement in this study was supplying tumors that I had removed from my patients. Those tissue samples were compared to other tissue samples under a microscope. Pathologists do this work to gain clues about tumors," he wrote on his Facebook page.
"I, nor any of the doctors involved with this study, [do not have] anything to do with abortion or what Planned Parenthood has been doing. Research hospitals across the country have microscope slides of all kinds of tissue to compare and contrast. The fetal tissue that was viewed in this study by others was not collected for this study," he added.
