July 2019 – Article 2:    

While still short of the goal of completely ending the barbaric practice of killing pre-born children for research, the Trump administration has taken a major step to end the carnage.

Government funded research using tissue from aborted babies has been ongoing in the US for decades.

Last month the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) announced that they will not renew a $521,082 grant to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) that was using fetal tissue obtained from abortions to create “humanized mice.”

At the same time, it was also announced that NIH will discontinue “intramural” research—research conducted by NIH employees—that uses new fetal tissue obtained from abortions.

Current “extramural” research, such as conducted by universities, is not affected by the change.  However, an ethics advisory board will review future requests for federal grants to conduct research using new fetal tissue.

These encouraging developments follow the 2018 announcement that HHS will provide $20 million to research, develop, demonstrate and validate experimental models that do not rely on human fetal tissue from abortions.

The UCSF experiments were supposed to create a human immune system in mice. The procedure involved engrafting them with human fetal bone marrow, liver and thymus tissue from 20-24 week old aborted children.

This abuse of human beings involved a wishful goal of developing a cure for HIV.

NIH originally signed the first one-year contract with UCSF in 2013. The government had the option of renewing it six times through December 5, 2020. If the contract had been allowed to run through that deadline, UCSF would have received a total of $13,799,501.

However, in September of 2018 HHS announced it would conduct an audit of all acquisitions of fetal tissue to ensure conformity with procurement laws and regulations. That audit led to the latest announcements.

The the Personhood of every pre-born child and best solution is to officially recognize completely ban the use of new fetal tissue for research.

Please pray that God will convict lawmakers to address this evil situation.

Sources: hhs.gov; washingtonpost.com; foxnews.com.

By Wayne DuBois

Georgia Right to Life

Media Relations Advisor