National Institutes of Health board votes against funding most research proposals using fetal tissue cruxnow.com
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Aug. 20 praised the National Institutes of Health’s Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board for its decision to withhold funds from 13 of 14 research proposals that involved the use of fetal tissue.
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said the bishops applaud the Trump administration “for moving NIH in a direction that shows greater consideration for medical ethics in research, and greater respect for innocent human life.”…
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