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    Michael Hiltzik: Bowing to anti-abortion lobby, Trump terminates crucial research contract

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jun 07, 2019 3 minutes

    Bowing to pressure from the anti-abortion lobby, the Trump administration said Wednesday that it will end a contract with the University of California that used human fetal tissue to research treatments for infectious diseases such as HIV and the Zika virus.

    The research, performed at the division of experimental medicine at UC San Francisco, received more than $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health last year. In December, however, the Department of Health and Human Services placed

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