NIH Reverses Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research 04/25/2021 at 9:32 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
Attorney General Xavier Becerra, HHS Secretary, previewed the announcement on Thursday at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee.
National Catholic Register, April 17, 2021
WASHINGTON The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday reversed restrictions on federally-funded research using fetal tissue and organs of aborted babies.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a notice to the “extramural research community” – researchers who are not at NIH facilities – that it would be removing the Trump administration’s 2019 requirement that a federal ethics advisory board review all proposals for fetal tissue research.
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It’s great news for Planned Parenthood’s aftermarket baby parts business, but horrendous news for babies and human decency. The Biden-Harris administration is rolling back restrictions on using aborted fetal tissue in our government’s scientific research, and the reaction from pro-lifers was swift and damning.
At the behest of the Trump administration in 2019, the HHS established restrictions on the National Institute of Health stopping it from “providing money for fetal tissue research by scientists who are government employees,” wrote the
Washington
Post. In addition the restrictions included establishing an “Ethics Advisory Board (EAB) to review all new and renewable requests for research using tissue from elective abortions.”
04-19-2021
Ultrasound showing an unborn baby in the womb
The Biden administration is allowing university researchers and government scientists to use human fetal tissue for medical research.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reversing a Trump-era policy that had banned the use of tissue from elective abortions.
As CBN News reported in June of 2019, the Trump administration announced government scientists would no longer be allowed to conduct research using aborted baby body parts. And taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund that research at the University of California, San Francisco following an investigation into UCSF s research practices. The investigation was part of a broader audit to see if American taxpayer money is helping pay for research involving the body parts of aborted children.