{"id":248255,"date":"2021-06-29T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248255"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:39:17","slug":"hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

Department of Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra recently <\/span>shut down<\/span><\/a> the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board, which was responsible for providing oversight for human fetal tissue research and experimentation. The board formerly had the ability to veto research proposals it found ethically questionable.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, 137 congressional Republicans<\/span><\/a>\u00a0sent a\u00a0<\/span>letter<\/span><\/a> to Becerra urging the reversal of this decision, due to the poor ethical track record of previous federally funded projects involving human fetal tissue. As an example, the letter highlights recent documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act and published by <\/span>Judicial Watch<\/span><\/a> which revealed the FDA\u2019s routine \u201c<\/span>orders<\/span><\/a> for eyeballs, livers, skin, brains, skulls, and sometimes fully intact bodies of infants aborted in the second trimester\u201d from Advanced Bioscience Resources, which has <\/span>acted<\/span><\/a> as a fetal tissue procuring middleman between the federal government and Planned Parenthood, the nation\u2019s largest abortion chain. <\/span><\/p>\n

The letter also mentions the <\/span>Center for Medical Progress’s<\/span><\/a> recent disclosure of horrific experiments on aborted children \u2014 including \u201cscalping 5-month-old aborted fetuses to stitch onto lab rats” and \u201ckilling infants delivered alive for liver harvesting\u201d at the University of Pittsburgh \u2014 which were taxpayer-funded through Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Fetal tissue is not necessary for medical innovation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese revelations raise numerous questions about the safeguards the federal government has in place to protect taxpayer dollars from being used for unethical or illegal research purposes,\u201d the letter reads. It goes on to note that the ethics board Becerra has shut down \u201cvoted to recommend that the Secretary withhold funds for 13 of 14 proposals on account of serious ethical concerns.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biden-Harris administration has also <\/span>reversed<\/span><\/a> the Trump-era prohibition against taxpayer funding for intramural fetal tissue research. The combined effect of this reinstatement and the elimination of the Ethics Advisory Board is to create a wild-west situation wherein researchers can abuse and desecrate the remains of innocent children killed by abortion in virtually any manner they please and without any kind of oversight \u2014 and it is being funded by American taxpayers, whether they agree with it or not. According to a 2019 Susan B. Anthony List <\/span>poll<\/span><\/a>, 57% of U.S. voters oppose<\/em> taxpayer funding of experiments that involve the use of body parts procured from aborted children, with 41% strongly opposing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra recently shut down the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board, which was responsible for providing oversight for human fetal tissue research and experimentation. The board formerly had the ability to veto research proposals it found ethically questionable. In response, 137 congressional Republicans\u00a0sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":248262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[10353,10061,10356,4153,10355,8074,4198,10354,10357,10358,5864],"yoast_head":"\nHHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322882017-becerra.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bettina di Fiore\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bettina di Fiore\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bettina di Fiore\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/189f8a60121ec1992ae74917a7134f0f\"},\"headline\":\"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\"},\"wordCount\":408,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Becerra\",\"Biden\",\"Biden-Harris administration\",\"Center for Medical Progress\",\"fetal experimentation\",\"fetal research\",\"fetal tissue\",\"fetal tissue ethics board\",\"research on aborted children\",\"tissue harvesting\",\"Xavier Becerra\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Issues\",\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\",\"name\":\"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/189f8a60121ec1992ae74917a7134f0f\",\"name\":\"Bettina di Fiore\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e31061bd16493d73f3e184e7dfec4d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e31061bd16493d73f3e184e7dfec4d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bettina di Fiore\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/bettina-di-fiore\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board","description":"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board","og_description":"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":650,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322882017-becerra.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bettina di Fiore","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bettina di Fiore","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/"},"author":{"name":"Bettina di Fiore","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/189f8a60121ec1992ae74917a7134f0f"},"headline":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board","datePublished":"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/"},"wordCount":408,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Becerra","Biden","Biden-Harris administration","Center for Medical Progress","fetal experimentation","fetal research","fetal tissue","fetal tissue ethics board","research on aborted children","tissue harvesting","Xavier Becerra"],"articleSection":["Issues","Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/","name":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-06-29T18:40:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-29T18:39:17+00:00","description":"The Trump-era Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board had provided oversight and had the ability to veto ethically questionable research proposals.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hhs-becerra-shut-down-fetal-ethics-board\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"HHS Secretary Becerra shuts down fetal research ethics advisory board"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/189f8a60121ec1992ae74917a7134f0f","name":"Bettina di Fiore","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e31061bd16493d73f3e184e7dfec4d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e31061bd16493d73f3e184e7dfec4d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bettina di Fiore"},"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/bettina-di-fiore\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248266,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248255\/revisions\/248266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}