Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 May
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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.
So there's some, we've been tracking this very carefully and the use of human fetal tissue and research has been declining pretty sharply.
Even after the Biden administration sort of reversed the ban, the amount of money that the NIH has spent on human fetal tissue during the Biden administration research has declined very sharply.
And so what's happened is there's all these like big advances where you can use alternate methods.
that you no longer need human fetal tissue.
A lot of the angst and fights over this that happened in the early 2000s, I think now that there's better technology, the point is that there's no scientific harm to this.
We're still going to be able to do the science we need for human health, for advancing health of babies and all that, while at the same time,
getting rid of this sort of like use of aborted human fetal tissue, which so many people, including me, find morally abhorrent.
Well, first, I'd ask them to look at the actual policy, right?
So someone who's at a miscarriage and then wants to do a meaningful thing with that and they donate the tissue from the miscarriage to science, that's still allowed, right?
So the only ban is on you have an abortion specifically to terminate the baby, and then the tissue then gets sold.
That's what's being banned.
not all human fetal tissue.
The other thing I point out, Ben, is that if you look at the actual data on the use of NIH funds for this, during the Biden administration, there was a sharp drop in spending on human fetal tissue research.
And the reason is very simple.
It's because of the advances in alternatives to the human fetal tissue.
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