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...remain unsolved. For the past several years, a study group of the National Institutes of Health has been working on a set of guidelines covering the use of aborted fetuses for research purposes. Last week, in the wake of a furor created by public reaction to this proposal, the NIH bypassed its panel and recommended instead a code that would effectively prohibit all research on aborted fetuses...
...original guideline proposals would have extended to fetuses in utero the NIH ban on any possibly harmful research involving human beings...
Outcry. The public outcry over fetal research began last spring, when Oh. Gyn. News, a semimonthly newsletter for obstetricians and gynecologists, reported that the NIH was nearing a decision that would permit funding of such projects. The story generated a storm of controversy among physicians, scientists, lawyers and theologians, many of whom argued that aborted fetuses are beings so close to living humans that the idea of experimenting on them is morally repugnant. Nowhere did it arouse more anger than at the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. A group of students there...
...into law. Now Congress is trying to salvage other health measures. The House, under the leadership of Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, has passed a $415 million training and fellowship bill that is also expected to win Senate approval. The House Appropriations Committee is attempting to restore all NIH items to or above the 1972 funding level and re-establish the old ratio between new and ongoing research grants. If Congress succeeds in saving these programs, it can still prevent both the lights in the laboratories and the luster of American medicine from being dimmed...
...NIH officials warned that extensive trials and testing must still be conducted before the new vaccine can be licensed and made available to the public. But they are cautiously confident that the vaccine will be ready in time for the next predicted flu epidemic...