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The husband of staunch anti-abortion Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) sold up to $15,000 of stock in a biotechnology company that uses human embryonic stem cells for medical treatments — at the same time she and her husband are suing the government over the use of stem cells in developing COVID-19 vaccines, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal financial records.

Luna reported the Jan. 2 sale of stock in Lineage Cell Therapeutics, valued between $1,001 and $15,000, according to a Jan. 29 financial disclosure report.

In June, Raw Story first reported on her husband’s ownership of the stock in the California-based company that uses “specialized, terminally-differentiated human cells,” to treat traumatic injuries, degenerative diseases and cancers, according to its website.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and her husband are suing the federal government, alleging COVID vaccine requirements in the military violated their religious beliefs because the therapy was developed using embryonic stem cells.

But Luna’s husband, Andrew Gamberzky, who resigned from the Air National Guard over the issue, also invests in a company that uses human embryonic stem cells to treat disabilities, according to Luna’s most recent congressional financial disclosure.

Gamberzky owns between $1,001 and $15,000 of stock in Lineage Cell Therapeutics. The California-based company says it intends to “pioneer a new branch of medicine based on transplanting specific cell types to patients with serious medical conditions,” such as paralysis....

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), one of Congress’ most outspoken abortion rights opponents, disclosed that her husband invests in a company that utilizes human embryonic stem cells to treat disabilities, a Raw Story review of congressional financial documents.

The congressional financial disclosures indicate that Andrew Gamberzky, Luna’s husband, holds a stock investment worth between $1,001 and $15,000 in Lineage Cell Therapeutics.

The California-based company says it intends to “pioneer a new branch of medicine based on transplanting specific cell types to patients with serious medical conditions,” such as paralysis, using proprietary technology and therapies....

Researchers at Stanford convert skin cells into stem cells, which became human sperm cells when transplanted into mice's testes