NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Fetal Tissue Research Ban to be Extended
From Times staff and wire reports
Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan is expected to act soon on a recommendation by Dr. James O. Mason, assistant secretary for health, to extend an 19-month-old ban on fetal tissue research, government sources said. Anti-abortion groups argue that to permit transplants of tissue from aborted fetuses would create a demand for the tissue, encouraging women to have abortions.
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