Alta Charo

University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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This latest push in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood has put fetal tissue under the microscope. Fetal tissue has been used in research in the medical community since the 1930s.

Fetal Tissue in Medical Research

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