Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the National Institutes of Health, on Wednesday told senators during his confirmation hearing that he is “absolutely committed” to avoiding using aborted fetal products in research.
“In public health, we need to make sure the products of science are ethically acceptable to everybody,” Bhattacharya said. “And so having alternatives that are not ethically conflicted with fetal cell lines is not just an ethical issue, but it’s a public health issue.”
Trump’s administration in 2019 moved to eliminate some federally funded research that relies on fetal tissue from elective abortions, though the Biden administration reversed those in 2021.
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