The United States is the world leader in most areas of science and medicine, yet our current medical establishment is decades behind in its ineffective and immoral use of aborted fetal tissue for research. It is time for the federal government to stop funding this antiquated research, and for our leaders at the National Institutes of Health to stop using taxpayer dollars to propagate poor science and the gruesome trafficking of aborted baby body parts.
President Ronald Reagan rightly instituted a moratorium on federally funded fetal tissue research during his second term in office. Unfortunately, the Clinton administration ended the moratorium in 1993 as the hype grew over the possibility of using aborted fetal tissue transplants to cure diseases. This federal statute has remained virtually unchanged to the present day, allowing the secretary of health and human services to “conduct or support research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes.”
