Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), and 21 other Republican members of Congress sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging him to permanently end the agency’s funding of human embryo-destroying stem cell (hESC) research and terminate the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry (Registry).
The letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner, asserts that hESC research—which the NIH has spent over $1.2 billion on between 2021 and 2024—is “unethical” and “has not yielded good results,” and argues that the NIH should redirect its attention to more promising and ethical types of stem cell research, such as adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
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