NIH marketed the historic move — which applies to “all NIH-supported extramural research,” such as grants, cooperative agreements, awards, and other contracts — as “a significant milestone in the Trump Administration’s efforts to modernize biomedical science and accelerate innovation.”
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For pro-lifers who will gather together in Washington, D.C., to March for Life this weekend, the NIH’s decision is a payoff on their decades-long lobbying effort to end taxpayer-funded experiments involving aborted babies.
For decades, the people dedicated to protecting unborn babies and the sanctity of life have pleaded for a prohibition on the purchase of aborted baby body parts. Despite a partisan regulatory battle over the issue, one that spanned the Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, the NIH ultimately poured millions of Americans’ hard-earned dollars into experiments on human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions over a period that spans roughly 75 years.
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California officially ended its years-long political prosecution of Daleiden and his partner for filming the interaction last year. Yet the federal government, even after the release of Daleiden’s footage and the exposure of barbaric experiments on aborted babies by the University of Pittsburgh, continued to allow the purchase of baby body parts with Americans’ hard-earned dollars in the name of science.
In fact, under the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services halted the NIH ethics board assigned to oversee human fetal tissue research. At the bidding of President Joe Biden, HHS also reversed a first-term Trump administration rule that banned government employees from using tax dollars to buy human fetal tissue used in studies.
The NIH claims research involving aborted baby body parts has “declined steadily since 2019” but still accounted for 77 taxpayer-funded projects in the 2024 fiscal year. The agency’s latest pivot from experimenting on human fetal tissue, “mostly obtained” from elective abortions, to “robust alternatives that can drive discovery while reducing ethical concerns” should effectively bring that number down to zero.
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While the NIH will no longer finance research on aborted baby body parts, taxpayer-funded studies involving the remains of babies who were stillborn or miscarried will still be conducted.
* Original Article:
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/22/feds-will-no-longer-use-your-tax-dollars-to-do-experiments-on-aborted-babies-bodies/?utm_source=rss
