The Trump administration’s ban on aborted human fetal tissue in federally funded research has come under renewed fire as Democrats and pro-choice advocates accuse the White House of hampering the search for coronavirus cures.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, called on the administration to lift the “illogical and harmful” restrictions, citing a report about a National Institutes of Health immunologist who has sought an exemption for his COVID-19 research.
Mr. Nadler said the Department of Health and Human Services “must authorize this research immediately and while the ban on fetal tissue research should be lifted permanently, at the very least it must be lifted during this pandemic.
More @ Source: Jerry Nadler seeks aborted fetal tissue research ban reversal amid coronavirus crisis – Washington Times
