Sentence examples for use of fetal tissue from inspiring English sources

The bill was prompted by conservative backlash to a series of undercover videos in which Planned Parenthood employees discuss the use of fetal tissue obtained during abortion procedures.

A Wisconsin bill that would limit the research use of fetal tissue from abortions is gaining momentum, over the protest of scientists who say the measure would stifle progress in disease research.

A special investigative panel in the U.S. House of Representatives this week intensified its probe into the use of fetal tissue in biomedical research with a dozen new subpoenas aimed at researchers and abortion providers.

"A special investigative panel in the U.S. House of Representatives... intensified its probe into the use of fetal tissue in biomedical research with a dozen new subpoenas aimed at researchers and abortion providers," Kelly Servick reported last Friday.

► "A Wisconsin bill that would limit the research use of fetal tissue from abortions" was approved Wednesday "by a committee in the state assembly and [is] expected to win the support of the full assembly this fall," Kelly Servick reported on Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider.

The bill, approved today by a committee in the state assembly and expected to win the support of the full assembly this fall, is the first in what many predict will be a series of battles waged at the state level against the distribution and use of fetal tissue.

Informed consent for the use of fetal tissues for research purposes was obtained for all individuals involved in this study according to hospital and Australian National Health and Medical Research NHMRCC) guidelines.

"The issue is not about abortion, it's about fetal tissue and uses of fetal tissue and whether it should be allowed to be used for medical research, but that's a debate we should have on that issue," said King. "This bill is like attacking Brazil after Pearl Harbor: it's a vigorous response but it's the wrong target".

Abortion opponents have organized a petition drive in Bellevue that seeks to ban the use or donation of fetal tissue from abortions, apparently an unprecedented tactic in the crusade against abortion.

In an editorial released on Tuesday, the New England Journal of Medicine described the videos as "a campaign of misinformation about the retrieval of fetal tissue used in research and therapy is the excuse".

Using placenta as the source of fetal tissue from a US cohort exposed to arsenic around the MCL, we identified the arsenic transporter AQP9 as a possible biomarker of arsenic exposure in fetal tissues.