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 Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA)
 Assisted Suicide
 Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
 Child Custody Protection Act/CIANA
 Conscience Protection
 District of Columbia Abortion Funding
 Embryo/Fetal Research
 Federal Employees' Health Benefits (FEHB)
 Fetal Tissue Research
 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE)
 Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)
 Health Care Reform
 Human Cloning
 Human Life Amendment
 Hyde Amendment
 Medical Training Non-Discrimination (ACGME)
 Mexico City Policy
 Military Abortion Policy
 Morning-After Pill
 Parental Involvement
 Partial-Birth Abortion
 Prison Abortion Funding
 Project Life and Liberty
 RU-486: Chemically Induced Abortion
 Stem Cell Research
 Terri Schiavo Dies
 Umbilical Cord Blood Banks
 Unborn Victims of Violence Act
 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Fetal Tissue Research

Two research questions need to be distinguished: research using living tissue from human embryos and fetuses who have been aborted and research on live human embryos and fetuses. Research using the living tissue from aborted embryos and fetuses for transplant therapy (fetal tissue transplant research) was debated prominently in the early 1990s.


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