Fetal Tissue Transplantation Policy in the United States

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ID12063001
AuthorsDorothy E Vawter (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume12
Issue1
Pages79-85
Publication date1993-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics and the Life Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0730-9384 • E-ISSN: 1471-5457
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0730938400011278
PMID11656401
OpenAlexW2419210127
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

After decades of supporting fetal tissue research, in March, 1988 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) banned the use of federal funds for fetal tissue transplantation research in humans involving tissue from electively aborted fetuses. The ban was not imposed because it is unethical to transplant tissue from electively aborted fetuses; such tissue may be transplanted into animals. Nor was it imposed because it is unethical for women to donate tissue after elective abortion; women may donate such tissue for purposes other than transplantation into humans. The ban was narrowly focused on the transplantation of tissue from electively aborted fetuses into humans. It stemmed from two beliefs: (1) that it is wrong for women to abort their fetuses for the purpose of donation, and (2) that there is no way to prevent women from aborting their fetuses for the purpose of donation if the tissue may be donated for transplantation

Aborted Fetus · Abortion · Biology · Donation · Fetal Tissue Transplantation · Fetus · Obstetrics · Organ donation · Political science · Pregnancy · Tissue Donation · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Medicine · Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Surgery · Transplantation

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