This is a recommendation for banning stem cell research and other types of research using fetal cells. I touch on this in Section 3 quite a bit, so I won’t repeat that argument here – please do read it if you’re interested in how this type of research works and how banning it would impact society.

His assertion that children’s lives are “ended as part of research” is a bald-faced lie. There are ethical constructs surrounding how and when fetal cells can be used for research, and in the case of elective abortion, it is always arranged after the abortion was already decided upon and finalized. In the United States, laws regarding fetal tissue collection for research require informed consent from the woman donating the tissue, prohibit the buying and selling of fetal tissue for profit, and mandate that the collection process cannot influence the timing or method of an abortion to obtain the tissue; all governed under federal regulations outlined in the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) Section 498A and 498B.

Full contextual analysis of Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services here.