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Da Law...... for the professor.

SEC. 113. NULLIFICATION OF MORATORIUM.

(a) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subsection (c), no official of the executive branch may impose a policy that the Department of Health and Human Services is prohibited from conducting or supporting any research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. Such research shall be carried out in accordance with section 498A of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 111 of this Act), without regard to any such policy that may have been in effect prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.

(b) Prohibition Against Withholding of Funds in Cases of Technical and Scientific Merit-

(1) IN GENERAL- Subject to subsection (b)(2) of section 492A of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 101 of this Act), in the case of any proposal for research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not withhold funds for the research if--

(A) the research has been approved for purposes of subsection (a) of such section 492A;

(B) the research will be carried out in accordance with section 498A of such Act (as added by section 111 of this Act); and

(C) there are reasonable assurances that the research will not utilize any human fetal tissue that has been obtained in violation of section 498B(a) of such Act (as added by section 112 of this Act).

(2) STANDING APPROVAL REGARDING ETHICAL STATUS- In the case of any proposal for research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the issuance in December 1988 of the Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel shall be deemed to be a report--

(A) issued by an ethics advisory board pursuant to section 492A(b)(5)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 101 of this Act); and

(B) finding, on a basis that is neither arbitrary nor capricious, that the nature of the research is such that it is not unethical to conduct or support the research.

(c) AUTHORITY FOR WITHHOLDING FUNDS FROM RESEARCH- In the case of any research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may withhold funds for the research if any of the conditions specified in any of subparagraphs (A) through (C) of subsection (b)(1) are not met with respect to the research.

(d) DEFINITION- For purposes of this section, the term `human fetal tissue' has the meaning given such term in section 498A(f) of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 111 of this Act).

Now why'd you have to go mess up this nice clean thread with facts? ;)

Thanks, deport.

Satadru, you don't have to apologize, but you could get to work on having the Supreme Court overturn that law.

This is standard stuff for any research proposal. The funny thing is that it even mentions under what circumstances the Sect of HHS can deny such funding. There is a large laxity on personal judgements, like in sub-section 2. Moreover, section 498 of the Public Health Service Act is so broad, that any person can cite what is ethically wrong under that section. The truth is Bush does not understand the philosophical issue, and hence he makes moronic judgements that makes him look pro-choice.