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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is soliciting nominations to an advisory board to help the Trump administration craft ethical policies with regard to the use of\u00a0aborted babies in medical research.<\/p>\n

HHS announced<\/a> the creation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board last June, following controversy over the administration contracting with Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR) and the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) on experiments to give mice \u201chumanized\u201d immune systems for the purpose of drug testing.<\/p>\n

Following criticism from pro-lifers, HHS canceled the contracts and pledged to audit the other projects it was funding for similar ethical conflicts. It also announced the advisory board, which will \u201creview [future] research proposal and recommend whether, in light of the ethical considerations, NIH should fund the research project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, HHS announced<\/a> it was soliciting nominations of \u201cqualified individuals\u201d to the board for review by the administration. That announcement was posted to the Federal Register today.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Top 5 shocking under-oath admissions about Planned Parenthood\u2019s sale of aborted babies<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board will be composed of 15 individuals who are not federal employees,\u201d the announcement reads. It must include at least one attorney, at least one ethicist, at least one practicing physician, and at least one theologian. Between a third and half of the appointments must be \u201cscientists with substantial accomplishments in biomedical or behavioral research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ethics Board will advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) regarding the ethics of research involving human fetal tissue (HFT) proposed in NIH grant and cooperative agreement applications and R&D contract Proposals,\u201d it explains. \u201cRecommendations will address whether the Secretary should withhold funds or not withhold funds from a proposed project because of ethical considerations. In providing advice and recommendations on these matters, the Ethics Board will consider, among other things, the use of alternative models, and review and verify the core ethical principles and procedures used in the process to obtain written voluntary informed consent for the donation of the tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pro-life representation on the board will be critical to countering the advice of those who take a more lax view of the issue, including those within the administration. In December 2018, controversy<\/a> broke out over NIH Director Francis Collins arguing there was a \u201cstrong case\u201d for using fetal tissue even if derived from abortions, just as HHS was auditing the funding of such research.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing that Dr. Collins said should be seen as pre-judging the outcome of the review,\u201d HHS subsequently clarified.<\/p>\n

Those interested in nominating someone to the board can find further details on materials to submit and where to send nominations in the announcement<\/a>. Nominations must be received within 30 days of the notice\u2019s publication in the Federal Register (February 20).<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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