Trump Administration Ethics Board to Review Fetal Tissue Studies (2)

A new fetal tissue research ethics review board will get underway early next year as part of the Trump administration’s plan to place restrictions on an area of research abortion opponents have protested.

The Department of Health and Human Services will formally announce the intention to convene the National Institutes of Health Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board in early 2020, and the board will start reviewing studies later in the year, according to a Dec. 23 NIH grants notice. A request for board nominees also will go out in early 2020, the notice said.

The notice follows ...