Washington, April 24 -- Rep. Chris Smith issued the following press release:
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), and 21 other Republican members of Congress sent a letter (https://chrissmith.house.gov/UploadedFiles/2026-04-24_-_Bicameral_Submission_-_NIH_FRI_on_Human_Embryonic_Stem_Cell_Research.pdf) to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging him to permanently end the agency's funding of human embryo-destroying stem cell (hESC) research and terminate the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry (Registry).
The letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/4541233/anti-abortion-republicans...