President Trump’s Bioethics Panel Rejects 13 Projects Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies
NATIONAL MICAIAH BILGER AUG 19, 2020
A new bioethics advisory board appointed by President Donald Trump released its first report Tuesday, recommending that the government reject funding for 13 of 14 research projects that plan to use aborted baby body parts.
The New York Times called the board’s recommendations to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar II a “de facto government ban” on funding scientific research that uses cells from aborted babies.
The recommendations are good news. Pro-life leaders have been urging the Trump administration to stop using tax dollars to fund unethical research for years. Under the Obama administration, millions of tax dollars were used to fund disturbing research studies, including one to create “humanized mice” with tissue from potentially viable aborted babies.
