LifeNews.com By Teagan Gambert
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), and 21 other Republican members of Congress sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging him to permanently end the agency’s funding of human embryo-destroying stem cell (hESC) research and terminate the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry (Registry).
The letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner, asserts that hESC research—which the NIH has spent over $1.2 billion on between 2021 and 2024—is “unethical” and “has not yielded good results,” and argues that the NIH should redirect its attention to more promising and ethical types of stem cell research, such as adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
“The NIH policy on funding hESC research and maintaining the Registry, which currently lists more than 500 hESC lines, has been a moral blot on NIH. This research relies on the death of human embryos,” the Republican lawmakers write. “There is no such thing as a ‘spare’ human being, and the U.S. government should not be facilitating or funding research that depends on killing and harvesting cells from human beings in their youngest form…
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