Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Some people think that study can be done overnight, but a proper study at any university takes time.

Now, in the government, there are some delays associated with procurement, acquiring databases.

The government shutdown was definitely a bit of a setback.

But we are committed to getting this study done expeditiously.

And I can assure you that there are no attempts to delay any such study.

People deserve to know the answer.

Yeah, so human fetal tissue research is, I mean, obviously it's been quite a controversial topic for a long time.

The NIH had a big debate in the early 2000s over this.

The tissue itself is often derived from aborted fetal tissue.

So, you know, someone has an abortion and then some researcher goes and buys the tissue and then uses it for research projects.

During Trump 1, the policy was that if – so there's two parts of the NIH.

There's intramural, researchers that directly work for the NIH, and there's extramural, all the people that the NIH funds, all in the universities.

Trump 1 banned intramural use of aborted fetal tissue.

human fetal tissue.

This time, we're going beyond that.

We're saying not just the intramural research, but all of the support for the NIH has had, especially during the Biden administration, for human fetal tissue research more broadly outside in universities that's derived from abortions is banned.

Sorry, there's a couple of nuances really important here.

One is that if there's tissue from a miscarriage, not from a specifically from an abortion, that's okay.

The reason that's important, there are some research uses, like for instance, understanding how fetal lungs develop, that's useful.

to know, to have that.