The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday announced it has put a halt to the permitted use of human fetal tissue from elective abortion in HHS-funded research. In a statement, HHS said that this new policy is in line with “the Trump administration’s priorities to uphold the sanctity of human life and modernize biomedical science.”
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a directive that includes restrictions on grants, contracts, and programs administered across HHS.
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“HHS is ending the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions in agency-funded research and replacing it with gold-standard science,” Kennedy said. “The science supports this shift, the ethics demand it, and we will apply this standard consistently across the department.”
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