University fights state effort to ban fetal tissue research
If the Wisconsin legislature bans research using fetal tissue, it will have a devastating impact on the University of Wisconsin (UW), according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The university is implementing a full-court press against a developing bill, raising eyebrows among the state's conservative legislators.
The proposed bill that emerged from committee last week outlaws fetal tissue procurement for research. The issue has been hotly debated since pro-life group Center for Medical Progress started releasing undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood's cozy, and allegedly profitable, relationship with tissue procurement companies....