The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that it plans to lift a moratorium on taxpayer-funded research involving human-animal chimeras. This research usually involves inserting human embryonic cells into an animal embryo in order to study human diseases and human development. In response to concerns over this research, the NIH instituted a moratorium a year ago on the use of NIH funds in chimera research. It now proposes to lift the ban.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking Catholics to contact the NIH urging it to retain its ban on this dehumanizing research.
To learn more about chimera research, read the USCCB forum post
here
and click on the
Human Life Action link
at the end to send your comments to the NIH. The Wisconsin Catholic Conference submitted comments to the NIH requesting that it keep the moratorium on chimera research in place.
Please act now to prevent this publically-funded research. The deadline for comments is midnight, Tuesday, September 6, 2016.
