Article snippet: The Trump administration and its anti-abortion allies have found themselves in a rare feud. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is facing pressure from leading anti-abortion groups to cancel more than $100 million in federal funding for research projects that use fetal tissue. HHS is soliciting feedback from scientists, anti-abortion groups and other stakeholders as it reviews programs that use fetal tissue before making a decision on whether to nix funding. Anti-abortion groups say the decision should be easy: Eliminate all fetal-tissue funding. “It shows a very hypocritical, and in my view, anti-science view to continue funding it,” said Tom McClusky, vice president of government affairs for March for Life. He said the funding decision “unfortunately overshadows some of the good stuff this administration is doing. One would hope they’d be consistent with their pro-life message.” The hard-line stance of anti-abortion groups is putting political officials at HHS in a tough spot as the agency tries to balance the desires of career officials and leaders who support the research and the demands of some of the president’s strongest allies who helped get him elected. “It is certainly important to recognize that there are many more career employees at HHS and the [Food and Drug Administration] and throughout the administration who are committed to their work,” said Megan Donovan, a senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights rese... Link to the full article to read more