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Father, thank You for the godly people at work in our government changing policies and procedures to honor and uphold life. Grant them favor and help them end all government funding of research using human fetal tissue from abortions.
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Did you know that our government has funded research using human fetal tissue from elective abortions? Praise God that the current Department of Health of Human Services is moving away from this practice. Read the press release and pray that government funding of ALL research using human fetal tissue from elective abortions would stop.

In September 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration that provided human fetal tissue from elective abortions to develop testing protocols. The Department was not sufficiently assured that contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements. As a result, HHS also initiated a comprehensive review of all HHS research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research, and to ensure the adequacy of procedures and oversight of this research in light of the serious regulatory, moral, and ethical considerations involved.

When the audit and review began, HHS had an existing contract with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) regarding research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions. HHS has been extending the UCSF contract by means of 90-day extensions while conducting its audit and review. The current extension expires on June 5, 2019, and there will be no further extensions.

Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration. The audit and review helped inform the policy process that led to the administration’s decision to let the contract with UCSF expire and to discontinue intramural research – research conducted within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – involving the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortion. Intramural research that requires new acquisition of fetal tissue from elective abortions will not be conducted.

No current extramural research projects (research conducted outside NIH, e.g., at universities, that are funded by NIH grants) will be affected during their currently approved project period. For new extramural research grant applications or current research projects in the competitive renewal process (generally every five years) that propose to use fetal tissue from elective abortions and that are recommended for potential funding through NIH’s two-level external scientific review process, an ethics advisory board will be convened to review the research proposal and recommend whether, in light of the ethical considerations, NIH should fund the research project—pursuant to a law passed by Congress.

HHS will also undertake changes to its regulations and NIH grants policy to adopt or strengthen safeguards and program integrity requirements applicable to extramural research involving human fetal tissue.

Finally, HHS is continuing to review whether adequate alternatives exist to the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions in HHS-funded research and will ensure that efforts to develop such alternatives are funded and accelerated. In December 2018, NIH announced a $20 million funding opportunity for research to develop, demonstrate, and validate experimental models that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions. HHS is committed to providing additional funding to support the development and validation of alternative models.

Here is a statement from Dave Kubal, President of Intercessors for America about this announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services about this change.

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Alan K Veasey
June 6, 2019

Thank you Lord God for this counterattack against abortion and
the religion of Baal-Peor.

Donna Nelson
June 6, 2019

Donna Nelson
Praise the Lord for the unplanned movie and exposing this darkness! If we want our eyes to be truly opened read the book “The Apostolic Church Arising.” by Chuck D. Pierce & Robert Heidler. That will be a start!
We must decree the Word of God to see it established Job22:28. The angels are waiting to take the Word (so lets not let be unemployed)
Love the body of true believers. I’m working at the employing of the angels. Takes patience and time.

Lisa Forte
June 6, 2019

While I am overjoyed that this investigation has resulted in the discontinuation of a very poor policy, I am befuddled that our government, using our tax dollars, is involved with funding such research. Oh how I wish we could be the government of the Founding Fathers and of the Constitution again.

Julie
June 5, 2019

There is so much pushback for using these precious little apple’s of God’s eye in their mad scientist’s experiments. There is the money, power, and satanic worship of using these children, which is heinous to God, since only Jesus’ blood avails for me. Children, at age 8 can now donate blood for Ambrosia, for youth rejuvenation for the elite, while saving for their college education fund. (See the prices for college and indoctrination continue to skyrocket). But the push for mandatory vaccines with aborted babies and blood of animals gets my gall the most and is seemingly the hardest thing to conquer right now. HHS has been part of promoting this. I believe this issue is worth a day of prayer and fasting.

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