Trump Stopping Funding Research With Aborted Baby Parts Was Good Morals and Good Science

The news two weeks ago from the National Institutes of Health could be downplayed as a tidbit of politics by the Trump administration around the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court abortion decision. But that would be missing the larger import of the statement by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya about the agency’s decision to end federal funding of research using tissue from elective abortions.

Bhattacharya said on Jan. 22, “NIH is pushing American biomedical science into the 21st century.